Just fired up Logos on my new laptop and I have to say the text seems more blurred than before. The resolutions is 1368x768.
Any thoughts on what the best/clearest font is? Anyone else having this problem?
Dan
blurred? Could you post a screen shot?
From the way you word it, it doesn't sound like a font problem.
Any thoughts on what the best/clearest font is?
This is actually a multi-million dollar question for companies like Adobe and Microsoft. I haven't brushed up on this for a while, but a while back I read a lot of design textbooks dealing especially with readability on different media (computer screen, TVs, billboards, etc). Most generally accepted as best fonts for reading on computer screens is Georgia, Verdana and Trebuchet.
Great article here: http://tinyurl.com/6r2drc
also, Bob Pritchitt commented that a much improved Reading Panel is in the works similar to the concept of http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/
Logos did update the font it uses as the default font and some other users complained that doing so made the font seem fuzzy. I don't think there is much Logos can do about that.
Probably those who need a different font would have to try a few from the Program Settings until they find one that works. The downside is that Logos has worked specifically with the Default font producer to get special characters in the font that Logos uses. Those might be absent from other fonts. My suggestion is to use an open type font that has an extended character set. Some of the basic fonts supplied with Windows would be a good starting point.
I changed my default to Cambria. It seems to work better with my eyes, and I haven't run into any issues with it - at least, not yet.
I changed my default to Global User Interface, Default Text Size 120%, Program Scaling 100% on my 17inch monitor. It seems much better on my eyes but i hate reading on a screen, my eyes still hurts though there are some improvements!
I like this font a lot and would recommend it. Screen reading is not my cup of tea and i am amazed at how folks can read a whole book in their Logos library. I am not sure what the secret to this is or perhaps some of these books in their Logos Library have only a few pages[:P] [:D].
Ted
I tried Global User Interface and I almost like it. I am pretty much using Adobe Caslon Pro 100% default text size and 90% scaling on my 17-inch laptop. Everything looked good on my laptop until Logos tweaked the hinting in the default font (I think that is what the post about ti said had been done). Anyway, after the font tweaking, the default looked fuzzy on my laptop. It looks great on my desktop (20-inch widscreen, default font 100% text size, 100% scaling), though. So, I am thinking my graphics card in my laptop (integrated Intel - yuck!) is the problem.
