Poor quality font rendering

[Scott Palmer]

The Grey vs LCD would explain it.  I haven't ever tried to alter the
defaults.


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Danno Ferrin <danno.ferrin at shemnon.com>wrote:

> 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
>>
>>
>