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Color Fringing
Authored by: landtuna on Sep 12, '02 03:04:12PM

I noticed the color fringing, too, on my iMac flat panel.

Curious, I took screen shots of my folder names in Mail.app in every anti-aliasing mode. (I found that the only way to reliably change all fonts to the new anti-aliasing mode was to log out and back in.)

I then used the zoom feature to look at them closely (and I could definitely tell a difference there). When compared at normal zoom, though, they were tough to tell apart. I could see that the non-CRT modes had color fringing, and that the fringing got stronger at higher anti-aliasing.

Eventually, I ended up agreeing that the Medium setting was the best tradeoff between smooth fonts and color fringing. (The CRT mode seemed to fuzz horizontal lines in small monospace fonts more.)



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