Re: [Freetype] Light text on dark background

[Pavel Kankovsky]

On Sat, 8 Feb 2003 address@hidden wrote:

> I'm writing a program that uses Freetype2 for font loading.  The problem is 
> thin fonts (for example, arial.ttf and cour.ttf at 12 point) do not look 
> good when rendered as light colored text on a dark background.  The 
> characters look smudged or half-erased.  Does any one have any good ideas on 
> how to prevent this?  I think it may be caused by the anti-aliasing of the 
> glyphs, but I don't know how to turn off the anti-aliasing to test if that 
> is the case.  Any ideas?  Thanks for your help. 

Use a properly gamma-corrected palette to make the "gray" shades brighter.

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