On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 01:49:48 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
 declaimed the following:

>
>Running Mate on an Intel deskto[p machone couled to a TV as  a makeshift
>satellelite TV i was never able to get the fonts readable at a distance
>no matter what I selected. I cant remember why but siomething happened
>at large fonts level that made it unreadable
>
 What type of font where you using. Core X-window fonts were bitmaps, as
I recall, and forcing them to a large size could result in lots of jagged
edges.

 If using scalable (PostScript/TrueType/OpenType) using Freetype to
render should have been somewhat better looking, though X-window seems to
favor 75 and 100 DPI (essentially original 72point/pixel Mac and 96pixel M$
Windows resolutions).

http://www.softpanorama.org/Xwindows/fonts_in_x_window.shtml


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