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From: tisu@quads.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue)
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Subject: Re: Soft Fonts
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Date: 29 May 91 21:07:44 GMT
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In article <1991May21.003213.29203@athena.mit.edu> fleabag@athena.mit.edu (jeff bellsey) writes:

>yes, just check out the photoshop splash screen. there are two versions,
>one grey-scale, the other b/w.  the grey-scale splash screen uses these
>anti-aliased fonts, and boy is it disconcerting!  it ends up looking
>blurry rather than jaggy, and just plain hurts to look at.

The same is true of the splash screen for NCSA Telnet.  For me, the effect
is that my brain thinks my eyes have suddenly gone out of focus, and spends
a fraction of a second trying to refocus them, and fails... it's
definitely an uncomfortable feeling.

(This is for a large type size though, I'd have to see what a small one
would look like.)

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