{"id":210,"date":"2008-05-09T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/2008\/05\/09\/anti-aliased-text-in-color\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T08:28:12","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T13:28:12","slug":"anti-aliased-text-in-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/2008\/05\/09\/anti-aliased-text-in-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-aliased text in color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nOver the past few years I've been fascinated to see the progress in making text look better on the screen. (I should confess right away that I know nothing about typography, and almost nothing about text anti-aliasing.) I recall reading some time ago that the Microsoft ClearType technology made use of color pixels, even when displaying \"black\" or gray text text. I thought to myself, \"I wonder how that works,\" and then I promptly forgot all about it.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nA couple of weeks ago I was preparing to give a presentation at Yale, and I was tinkering with a screen magnifier program (<a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sysinternals\/bb897434.aspx\">ZoomIt<\/a>; highly recommended) to use during my presentation. When I cranked the zoom factor all the way up, I was startled to see the colors everywhere in my text.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nHere's a screen shot of a portion of my browser display:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/steve\/2008\/text_screen_shot.png\"\/>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nNow here's a highly enlarged view of the word \"Each\":\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/images\/steve\/2008\/big_each.png\"\/>\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nWell!  That's pretty cool.  Human visual perception is a strange and wondrous thing.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<em>Added note: Blog reader Alessandro suggests looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Subpixel_rendering\">Wikipedia article on subpixel rendering<\/a> for more information.<\/em>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nOver the past few years I've been fascinated to see the progress in making text look better on the screen. (I should confess right away that I know nothing about typography, and almost nothing... <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/2008\/05\/09\/anti-aliased-text-in-color\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/steve\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}