Poor quality font rendering

[Danno Ferrin]

Are you seeing the different defaults for LCD smoothing?  The Text default
is Grey and the Control default (which Label inherits) is LCD.


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 5:23 AM, Scott Palmer <swpalmer at gmail.com> wrote:

> From what I have observed, Text and Label appear to have different
> defaults for when antialiasing is applied.  Text will do it always, Label
> only when the font is greater than a certain size.
>
> Scott
>
> On 2013-08-28, at 5:26 AM, "John C. Turnbull" <ozemale at ozemail.com.au>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Felipe,
> >
> > Thanks for the info.
> >
> > Is kerning planned for a Java 8 update or will it have to wait for 9?  Or
> > 10?
> >
> > One more thing I have just noticed is that the way the text is rendered
> in a
> > Text object with LCD font smoothing is quite different from a Label (with
> > the Text object looking better and closer to native text).
> >
> > While I concede that the "better" font rendering I thought I observed in
> > WebView is probably an illusion, there is definitely a difference between
> > Text and Label (at least on this machine).
> >
> > Why would that be?  Are they rendered differently?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -jct
>
>