Stunning CSS3: A Project-Based Guide to the Latest in CSS (John Pyers' Library) by Zoe Mickley Gillenwater

Author:Zoe Mickley Gillenwater
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: New Riders
Published: 2011-03-06T16:00:00+00:00

More on Font Hinting and Anti-Aliasing

Font hinting and anti-aliasing is a big, technical topic beyond the scope of this book, but if you’d like to learn more about it, check out these articles:

• “The Ails Of Typographic Anti-Aliasing” by Thomas Giannattasio (www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/11/02/the-ails-of-typographic-anti-aliasing) gives a good overview of anti-aliasing, hinting, subpixel rendering, and how various operating systems and browsers handle rendering web fonts.

• “Font Hinting Explained By A Font Design Master” by Richard Fink (http://readableweb.com/font-hinting-explained-by-a-font-design-master) and “Font Hinting” by Peter Bil’ak (www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting) give more detail on how hinting works.

• “Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering” by Joel Spolsky (www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html) compares Apple and Microsoft’s methods for smoothing on-screen text.

• “Browser Choice vs Font Rendering” by Thomas Phinney (www.thomasphinney.com/2009/12/browser-choice-vs-font-rendering) explains how browsers’ text rendering is dependent on the operating system.

• Webkit-based browsers let you control the anti-aliasing mode using their proprietary -webkit-font-smoothing property. See “-webkit-font-smoothing” by Tim Van Damme (http://maxvoltar.com/archive/-webkit-font-smoothing) for examples and “Font Smoothing” by Dmitry Fadeyev (www.usabilitypost.com/2010/08/26/font-smoothing) for an argument against the property.

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