The Liquid Crystal Goblet

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Rice Crispie — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:47:51 GMT

"We don’t want you to notice the type, we want you to read it."
Classic.

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leo — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 03:33:54 GMT

I'm looking forward to reading text that I can actually see w/o putting on my glasses.

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mike — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 00:18:58 GMT

Great job!

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Mud — Wed, 19 Oct 2005 16:02:43 GMT

Just found your site - can't wait for more.

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Goebbels — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 03:13:50 GMT

You should qualify your statements with "on Windows". You could snap Verdana off a Mac without tuning and it wouldn't look that shitty.

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asdf — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 04:11:45 GMT

I personally think the aliased example is way more easily readable than the cleartype one. I can't really explain why but I have a feeling it's because there is a very sharp contrast between the black text and the white on the aliased example but the cleartype one has this distracting halo around each glyph. I also have a few nitpicks at aliased vs non-aliased examples: - You guys cheat by using larger font sizes. Verdana at 10pts is way too huge. I use 8pt text on 1280x1024 (GDI units set to 96dpi) and I'd think it's less disingenuous to see examples do the same. - You turn nice skinny text into something that looks like it was bolded. This is probably why I enjoy aliased text so much; I have perfect vision and I want to cram as much text on the screen as possible (hell, my programming environment uses a 7 *pixel* tall Terminal font). I hope programmers and font designers still consider people like me when creating fonts and font rendering functions.