This produces a staircase effect on diagonal lines called aliasing. The effect is
very visible in the enlarged font sample shown in Figure 10-1, despite the fact that
this font has been designed to minimize diagonal lines (note the use of vertical lines
in the lowercase y character). The effect is particularly pronounced on small fonts or
low-resolution displays.
The solution to aliasing is to use intermediate colors??”grays if rendering the font
black-on-white??”to smooth out the staircase effect, as shown in Figure 10-2.
The new font system, discussed in Chapter 11, enables the display of antialiased
fonts. Although most modern applications use the new system, there are many legacy
applications that use the old font system, and it will be a long time before we??™re
in a position to scrap the old in favor of the new.
Figure 10-1. Enlargement of a monochrome font showing aliasing; note the staircase effect on
diagonal lines.
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10.2 Configuring the Font Path 143
This chapter discusses the configuration and installation of core fonts, including:
??? Using a font server (Section 10.3)
??? Specifying a font by name or by qualities (Section 10.4)
??? Installing and removing fonts (Section 10.
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