Thread: What does resolution mean for your tablet/phone/ereader?
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Old 11-06-2012, 01:08 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by DrNefario View Post
They seem to have really optimised the rendering on the kindle, somehow. I was looking quite closely at the curve of a C the other day, trying to make out the pixels, and I failed. On my kobo, which I believe is the same resolution, I can see the pixelation fairly easily. And on this iPad 2, the text gets a bit fuzzy at small sizes.
The kindle probably has better anti-aliasing. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_rasterization and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_anti-aliasing for an explanation and example images
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