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font smoothing

font smoothing

Using anti-aliasing techniques to make the curves and diagonals of font characters more realistic. See anti-aliasing and hints.
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The program ensures that users have no problems with their font smoothing, icon rendering, and other visual effects.
In one brief chapter, Holzschlag addresses font families and faces; type categories, type anatomy, leading and kerning; size, proportion and direction, as well as the digital issues of font smoothing and anti-aliasing.
The feature enables users to activate and deactivate individual fonts and font sets and to export font sets to other users, apply font smoothing to screen fonts and view and print font samples without the need to activate the fonts.
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