25 Apr
2016
25 Apr
'16
4:21 p.m.
On 2016-04-25 6:34 PM, ben wrote:
On 4/25/2016 3:55 PM, Toby Thain wrote:
Incorrect. Scalable system (& third party) fonts have been with us for
more than 30 years, as I said.
Both Mac System 7 and ancient Windows shipped with TrueType, but even
before that you had anti-aliased type with Adobe Type Manager.
OS X 10.3 shipped with subpixel rendering on LCD as has Windows
Cleartype for many years.
Now, not ALL UI elements may be properly resolution independent, but
TEXT definitely is (e.g. the Terminal window example, or any editor, etc).
Blow it up as big as you like; you might like to use one of these
scalable fonts: http://programmingfonts.org/ (Adobe Source Code Pro is a
great start)
--Toby
There is no upper limit to size & more pixels
means better fidelity to
letterforms and therefore better legibility, not worse. Ask a
typographer anything.
--Toby
I suspect other that TEX fonts, You cannot get fonts to scale properly
for the bigger screens. Ben.