{"id":716,"date":"2003-11-11T00:04:55","date_gmt":"2003-11-11T05:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=716"},"modified":"2016-08-19T11:05:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:05:25","slug":"panther_text_rendering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/11\/panther_text_rendering\/","title":{"rendered":"Panther Text Rendering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/tonza\/10.2.x_vs_10.3_text.gif\">Tonza<\/a> illustrates my <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/03\/panther_notes.html\">comment<\/a> about how Lucida Grande looks narrower and blacker on Panther.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/tonza\/10.2.x_vs_10.3_text.gif\" alt=\"10.2 vs 10.3\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2003\/11\/panther_text_rendering\">John Gruber<\/a> explains how on-screen typography is doomed to suck:\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2003\/11\/panther_text_rendering\">\r\nNon-anti-aliased text is dorky but sharp. Anti-aliased text is elegant but fuzzy. You can&rsquo;t win, because truly winning would require on-screen text that is both elegant and sharp, and that requires higher-resolution displays than those we have today.\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>\r\nWhich is true, but I&rsquo;m not asking to win. Just let me pick my poison. \r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonza illustrates my comment about how Lucida Grande looks narrower and blacker on Panther. John Gruber explains how on-screen typography is doomed to suck: Non-anti-aliased text is dorky but sharp. Anti-aliased text is elegant but fuzzy. You can&rsquo;t win, because truly winning would require on-screen text that is both elegant and sharp, and that requires [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15582,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/15582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}