Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Can we get fonts as sharp as Windows?

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Can we get fonts as sharp as Windows?

Charles A. Landemaine

2007-02-12, 6:14 pm

I was comparing my fonts in Photoshop with those of Windows. I can't
have fonts as sharp as Windows. Here's the difference:

http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/7598/fontsfj5.png

The one on top is Trebuchet MS in Windows and the one at the bottom is
the same font (Smooth) in Photoshop. I tried also Strong, Sharp and
Crisp.

How can I solve it?
Thanks,

tacit

2007-02-12, 6:14 pm

In article <1171281246.617718.195980@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,
"Charles A. Landemaine" <landemaine@XXXXXXXXXX> wrote:

> The one on top is Trebuchet MS in Windows and the one at the bottom is
> the same font (Smooth) in Photoshop. I tried also Strong, Sharp and
> Crisp.
>
> How can I solve it?

Set the Anti-Aliasing to "NONE".

Be aware that this only looks good at certain point sizes; at other
point sizes, it does not.

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Charles A. Landemaine

2007-02-13, 6:14 am

> Set the Anti-Aliasing to "NONE".

But I don't like when antialiasing is turnt off at small sizes... :(

Nicholas Sherlock

2007-02-14, 3:14 am

Charles A. Landemaine wrote:
> I was comparing my fonts in Photoshop with those of Windows. I can't
> have fonts as sharp as Windows. Here's the difference:
>
> http://img95.imageshack.us/img95/7598/fontsfj5.png
>
> The one on top is Trebuchet MS in Windows and the one at the bottom is
> the same font (Smooth) in Photoshop. I tried also Strong, Sharp and
> Crisp.

The font at the top uses ClearType, which uses colours around the edge
of the letters to make it appear sharper on LCDs (Zoom in in Photoshop
to see). It has much the same effect as anti-aliasing on CRT monitors.
It looks awful if your LCD has a different sub-pixel order to the
setting used to render the text. Since good looking ClearType is device
specific, it doesn't make much sense to render it in a raster image.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock

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