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Not with Small Type (Score:1)
Anti-aliasing is lame for small type. I personally don't like it for type smaller than about 16 point. Most major fonts have a few idea display sizes, and AA only makes them worse. But at large sizes, AA rocks.
Re:Not with Small Type (Score:1)
Maybe it was the particular font though.
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Re:Not with Small Type (Score:1)
The problem is with many fonts and many AA systems. Fonts need data to specify how they should cope at smaller sizes (e.g. scaffolding and so on), and the AA engine needs to actually be a good engine.
Best I ever saw was on Acorn RISC OS [acornuser.com]. That was over a decade ago. One wonders what the font people spend their time on.
One day, I hope for metafont fonts to catch on and for them to be well aliased. I like metafont because it is aware of the fact
---ict / Spoon