Questions about look and feel

[Dennis Brunnenmeyer]

Well, I did make the correction to the typo, but it seems as though 
this list server doesn't support features such as text strikeout, 
colored or bold text. What a shame. At any rate, THIS TIME the 
sentence reads correctly. I'll repeat it here for clarity;

The electron beam in a CRT cannot illuminate individual pixels on the 
CRT face. It merely "brushes"
across them, through what is known as a shadow mask, with a 
not-perfectly-defined beam size.

Comment:  Pixels as discussed in this manner, as you probably know, 
are actually made of three adjacent picture elements, each generating 
a different color: red, green and blue. This grouping of three 
elements comprises a triad, one pixel. When I say that a CRT cannot 
illuminate individual pixels, what I am saying is that with a CRT 
display, the illumination of individual pixels is not a perfect 
process. The dynamics of an analog interface/electron beam deflection 
system/shadow mask/phosphor CRT can only closely approximate what the 
video card wants it to display.

Enough of this off-topic stuff. The whole point I was trying to make 
earlier is that the viewer's monitor type and display settings 
affects the readability of text just as much (I think) as the choice 
of fonts. We can only choose the latter. Any studies on screen 
readability need to take this into account. I suspect that if the 
display system is a good, high resolution display properly 
configured, serif fonts would continue to be preferable. With lesser 
quality displays, I suspect the opposite.

Amazon's Kindle apparently uses both serif and sans serif fonts.

Dennis...
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At 03:30 PM 5/12/2008, Dennis Brunnenmeyer wrote:
>In a very recent post, I included an unfortunate typographical error.
>The sentence below has been corrected.
>
>Dennis...
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>At 12:41 PM 5/12/2008, Dennis Brunnenmeyer wrote:
>
>The electron beam in a CRT cannot illuminate individual pixels on 
>the CRT face. It merely "brushes"
>across them, through what is known as a shadow mask, with a 
>not-perfectly-defined beam size.
>
>Dennis Brunnenmeyer
>Cedar Ridge Systems.
> >*********************************************************
> >At 12:27 PM 5/12/2008, Kelly McDaniel wrote:
> > >On the computer display, the characters and background are formed from
> > >pixels. Pixels have smooth, parallel edges that enclose their color.
> > >Sans serif fonts appear crispier on the display because the character
> > >edge is more likely to mate with a pixel edge.
> >
> >Dennis Brunnenmeyer
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Dennis Brunnenmeyer
Director of Engineering
CEDAR RIDGE SYSTEMS
15019 Rattlesnake Road
Grass Valley, CA 95945-8710
Office: (530) 477-9015
Fax:  (530) 477-9085
Mobile: (530) 320-9025
eMail:  dennisb /at/ chronometrics /dot/ com