Re: poor font rendering in white-over-black (eg Mutt)
hi
what about this other small snippet of text (in attachment)?
on my CRT screen the word "mailbox" is divided in two parts,
the left part "mail" (and the vertical bar in the "b") is lighter
the right part "box" is darker.
I tried to enlarge it, and indeed in the left part many points have
a gray value of 170/255 whereas on the right part
the lightest point is 135/255
what do you see?
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actually, the way you see my snippet depends on wheter you properly
calibrated
the CRT (if you have a CRT... LCD has quite different response)
to properly calibrate the CRT, there are many tutorials
around...you may google around...
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I could partially improve the above problem
by changing in Profiles/colors/scheme
from "Linux Console" to "XTerm"
This uses brightest colors, so the darkest parts in the
Clive Menzies wrote:
On (23/05/05 08:20), s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from A Mennucc:
I just upgraded my box from woody to sarge
overall the result is OK, but for minor glitches
one problem is that the rendering of the fonts when using Mutt, or any
other application
that draws white chars over black background, is much worse
I attach a snapshot of the window: as you can see , some characters are
almost unreadable
(for example the 'o' do not look like circles but rather as squares
without corners)
Actually, I can't see that. It looks fine to me. Could this be some
sort of misconfiguration of X on your box?
what in particular?
Yes, It didn't look bad to me either. Perhaps a higher resolution is
the answer.
screen resolution, or font resolution?
I use 1280x1024 for the screen, and "monospace 10" for the gnome terminal
actuallt, the problem does not show when I use "monospace 12"; but terminals
are huge!
a.
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