[rw]

Aliased text?
Nonantialiased text?
Antiantialiased text?
Disantialiased text?

[saltines17]

aliased

[Guy Incognito]

Originally posted by saltines17:
<STRONG>aliased</STRONG>

'watch-out-that-jaggy-might-slice-your-neck-open-text'

[Judge_Fire]

Aliasing can be nasty, so in order to fight it, you apply a dose of anti- aliasing.
http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdtypo3.htm

J

[King Kong]

Hmmm.... good question

&gt;&gt;Aliased text?

Don't think it is aliased becaused that implies something is being done to the text.

&gt;&gt;Nonantialiased text?

This works but it implies that anti-aliased text is the default state (oh I almost forgot this is OS X, it IS the default state).

&gt;&gt;Antiantialiased text?

No. please God no.

&gt;&gt;Disantialiased text?

Sounds vaguely urban. Has sort of a Philly ring.

Maybe text that has not been anti-aliased should just be called plain "text".

[Spheric Harlot]

"Chunky."



-chris.

[Guy Incognito]

Originally posted by King Kong:
[QB]Hmmm.... good question

&gt;&gt;Aliased text?

Don't think it is aliased becaused that implies something is being done to the text.

You'd be wrong. And didn't you read the article link right above your post?

[starfleetX]

King Kong:
You really know nothing about typography on computers, do you?

[shortcipher]

aliasing is the visual effect that leads to "the jaggies" as most people like to call it. It happens when the computer tries to render vector lines that dont fall entirely horizontal or vertical (as in type). A curved line in a letter 'd' may pass through only one corner of a pixel, the computer of course, can only switch that pixel entirely on or off, not just light up the one little corner of it that the line touched, hence jaggies.

This happens also in print, its just that the dots are so small that you cant really see them.

Anti-aliasing is a way of fooling the eye into seeing a higher resolution, smoother line by using shades of grey instead of whole, black pixels. For example: if the line in question strkes a pixel and covers only half of it, then we light the entire pixel up 50% grey. The illusion is that only half of the pixel is filled in and so we see a smoother line.

Different amounts of antialiasing are used by different apps, this is done by using more or less shades of grey. Most antialiasing doesnt visually improve a great deal when using more than 16 shades of grey, often as few as 4 will do.

Aliased text is therefore the correct term for the more scientifically minded, although most designers seem to prefere non-antialiased.

[michaelb]

I've noticed that Mac OS X's antialiasing on LCDs looks better - particularly on laptops - when the screen is set to "Millions."

Probably because there are more of the subtle shades of gray available in the color gamut. (Although laptop screens typically have much less range anyway than desktop LCDs.)

The stripes are smoother too.

[Mithras]

We should think of "antialiased" as equivalent to "stainless steel."

"stainless steel": specially treated to avert a possible undesirable state.
"non-stainless steel": *not* specially treated.
"stained steel": the undesirable state. Not all non-stainless steel becomes stained steel.

Likewise,
"antialiased text": specially treated to avert a possible undesirable state.
"non-antialiased text": text not specially treated.
"aliased text": the undesirable state. Not all non-antialiased text is necessarily aliased.

[godzookie2k]

Uhm, no Mithras.

It's aliased and anti-aliased. "non-anti-aliased" is not a word.

I *really* fail to see where to discussion in this is. rw: you answer is that the opposite of "antialiased text" is called "aliased". Period.


Nick

(heh heh, I said "period" )

[shortcipher]

well blow me, did a search in Sherlock under the reference pane for "aliasing" and got this:

NOUN: 1. The appearance of jagged distortions in curves and diagonal lines in computer graphics because the resolution is limited or diminished. 2. The static distortion in digital sound caused by a low sampling rate.

and then "antialiasing" and got this:

NOUN: In computer graphics, the process of removing or reducing the jagged distortions in curves and diagonal lines so that the lines appear smooth or smoother.

so both of these are 'real' words I guess (from American Heritage Dictionary)

non-antialised however, is not.

but I suspect it will be one day....