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Originally Posted by GERGE
I don't think a screenshot is sufficient but it is helpful, that is why I have given both a screenshot and photo.
Every medium which text is shown is different, that is why they require their own typefaces. This typefaces could be modifications of old typefaces but every new medium requires its own design. This is because the way they show the letters are different. Laser printing, crt screens, lcd screens, they all have different printing and rendering (whichever applies) techniques; therefore fonts should conform to them.
Lcd, for example, has geometrically aligned pixels, and this is why we have hinting. Office laser printers had a very low dpi compared to professional printing when they were first introduced, so Charter got designed.
eInk is different too. Designed for eink means that typeface should be designed to be shown on eink screens. For example, eink isn't as detailed as printing, so typefaces shouldn't have too fine details (as far as printing goes, eink has very low dpi; this is why Charis SIL and Charter works so very well). eInk renders type thinly, so letters should have more weight to them. Letters' x-heights should be higher. This kind of things.
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I can see for lower dpi devices, it is more important, but once you are getting to "display" devices at >= 300dpi, does it really matter that much? How can you really tell/compare by going from a screen dump (that is supposed to go to an eink display) on an LCD.
What dpi capture device (camera/scanner) and display dpi would you need to do a proper evaluation.
What I'm saying is that I think a good font that is designed for a generic 300 dpi device would be fine by me. I think.
