The fonts are unhinted, and it is a matter of familiarity as to whether you like them or not. Unhinted font rendering always maintains the font shape.
Hinted rendering (such as Windows') distorts the font in order to fit screen pixels, thus changing the shapes dramatically. While this might look "sharp" on low-DPI displays, it's not good on higher resolution screens!
Get a 120 DPI display and you will *love* the difference unhinted font rendering makes.
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The fonts are unhinted, and it is a matter of familiarity as to whether you like them or not. Unhinted font rendering always maintains the font shape.
Hinted rendering (such as Windows') distorts the font in order to fit screen pixels, thus changing the shapes dramatically. While this might look "sharp" on low-DPI displays, it's not good on higher resolution screens!
Get a 120 DPI display and you will *love* the difference unhinted font rendering makes.
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