Re: [matplotlib-devel] Cairo Backend and Subpixel Rendering

[Darren D. <dsd...@gm...>]

On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Christopher Barker
<Chr...@no...>wrote:

> Jouni K. Seppänen wrote:
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType
>
> Reading that web page, I'm not convinced MS made the right decision here
> -- on my monitor (which is a ViewSonic LCD, probably pretty standard),
> I'm not sure the ClearType examples really look any better, and they
> certainly could look worse on other displays.
>

That could be because you have an unusual RGB subpixel layout, or because
the implementation of subpixel rendering on your system yields color
fringes. I don't have these problems on my ubuntu or gentoo systems, and
text looks much better on my LCDs when I have subpixel rendering enabled. I
think the users settings should be respected, if possible.

Darren