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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: System 7.0 speculations: Hot Scoop?
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Date: 8 Aug 89 15:13:35 GMT
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In article <24388@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> truel@silver.bacs.indiana.edu
(Robert Truel) writes about anti-aliasing being good for readibility:

>I don't have the studies, but I believe that the studies suggesting that
>readability increases was done either be IBM (as suggested on the net) or
>XEROX (my belief).

I remember seeing an article about research DEC had done in creating legible
screen fonts.  The claim in that article was that jaggies ARE NOT THE PROBLEM;
that real benefits lie in serifs, proper letter shapes, and proper stroke
weights.  (Now, anti-aliasing may indeed help with stroke weights.)  The
fonts touted in the article were not smooth at all, as I remember.


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