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Monitors: Fonts not antialiased; Colors distorted! Solution?

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:08 am
by nkulmati
Greetings, everyone.

A question on Web Design issues, not PHP. I assume many of the visitors are not only programmers, but also know quite a lot in general Web techology.

So, I encountered a tough dilemma recently, when developing a web site (of course :roll: ) on my laptop at home. In a couple of small places on the page, I use italic Trebuchet MS which, with little added letter-spacing, I find fantastic. So I test the page in a variety of resolutions that my laptop is capable of, and upload the files to the staging server.

Next day I am testing my site from work, where I have an old monitor (non-LCD) - duh!! -my page is presented to me not quite how I expected! Two issues:

1) My beautiful italic font is not anti-aliased enough, so it turns into a very ugly one! I have read about this issue with italic somewhere in the web, however found no tips on how to make it less of a problem. Have you guys come across a similar issue ? What did you do ? Did you leave the font as is, or remove the italic styling, or found an alternative? For my page, i feel that it is essential for that little text to be italic, however, the vast majority of targeted audience is not expected to be using modern monitors... :)

2) Some color gradient effects are distorted, and in particular: red-like gradients become yellow-like gradients!
I am not very experienced in graphics yet, but I did always realize that there exist some monitor testing techniques, however always neglected the need to research on that. So please, If you have expertise in what it's all about, I would really appreciate advice, tip or instruction.

Thanks and cheers to all of you here.
This is my first topic on this forum.

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:33 am
by jayshields
You only tested it on that one monitor? You should test it on more than one (old) monitor.

If you have a link, post it. I'm sure some people on here will let you know what it looks like on their screen.

Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 4:06 pm
by Mordred
jayshields wrote: I'm sure some people on here will let you know what it looks like on their screen.
Yeah, we can even send screenshots so you see for yourself! :twisted: :lol: 8)

(Sorry, couldn't resist)