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Originally Posted by DNSB
I am only aware of one ereader that used anti-aliasing and that was a 212 DPI screen.
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The 167 PPI Kindle 2 from 2009, my first e-ink device used anti-aliasing and I think all subsequent e-inks from amazon do. I am not in a position to determine whether it gets ditched in rendering based on settings. Attached is a screen shot from a first generation Scribe, which I hope meets the definition of recent. For anyone that doesn't know, the grayscale Scribe screen is 300 PPI. Zooming clearly shows anti-aliasing in both the reading font ond the UI font. I have no idea what happens with custom fonts.
The whole point of anti-aliasing is to be invisible or at least less obnoxious than the pixelization when it is missing.
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Originally Posted by rowe
While 300 ppi is sharp, most modern e-readers use some form of font smoothing by default (typically via grayscale anti-aliasing) to ensure characters appear consistent and "natural" rather than digitally harsh. However, the effect is much more subtle than on the old low ppi screens. On modern hardware this processing overhead is negligible.
Fast/speed refresh modes often forgo font smoothing.
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