JDK-8100547 : Please, improve font rendering.
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: javafx
  • Sub-Component: graphics
  • Affected Version: fx2.0
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • Submitted: 2011-07-30
  • Updated: 2015-06-16
  • Resolved: 2011-07-30
Related Reports
Duplicate :  
JDK-8101214 - Support LCD subpixel text
Description
Although the font rendering in current beta ( #37 ) is not very bad, but we all must to agree it is still far from perfect.

And it is critical for visual components.

I attached screenshot where JavaFX rendering compared with Google Chrome rendering which is far better.


I am not a designer, but some problems are:

1. General tone tends to gray ( dots with real black color are almost absent )
2. The interval between letters is sometimes too little ( and sometimes too big )
Comments
Dup of LCD text support - mostly.
30-07-2011
The decision was to have unhinted greyscale scaleable rendering and that is not what you see in chrome, so its different, and conciously so. I'm not defending it, just saying that was the decision and what we had to implement. There are already bugs to implement LCD (almost made it), and sub-pixel positioning and rendering I'll close this out as dup of RT-10770 : implement LCD text
30-07-2011
Reassigning to graphics team for triage.
30-07-2011