.@Conquistador wrote:
Screenshots as promised… 😉
This is with ClearType on. Reaper IMO has much clearer text compared to Podium here. I really do not know why Podium looks much less clear compared to Reaper :-k
Podium is on the left and Reaper is on the right. Look at the “Fabfilter Timeless” text for the inserts.
But if I switch off ClearType…can you spot the difference between the two applications “Fabfilter Timeless” text now? I can hardly tell them apart…below…
Podium is far sharper than the first image now that Cleartype is off and matches (maybe even goes further than) Reapers text for clarity in the second image. Quite a difference and quite easy to see IMO with those screen shots.
So Podium it appears benefits clearly from having anti aliasing disabled for certain areas (inserts on tracks and mixer strips) but anti aliasing is very helpful elsewhere in Podium that is why I think adding some kind of option to disable anti aliasing for the Insert, Source and Input buttons (just for the tracks and mixer strips) will solve this problem.
I hope that helps.
Thanks.
Anti-aliasing of fonts and other graphic elements are two different things. Podium uses its own anti-aliasing routines when rendering buttons and lines etc.
When it comes to fonts, Podium uses the default smoothing options selected in the OS, such as Clear-type. Podium uses the “Microsoft Sans Serif” font, which is the default Windows font used way back on the earliest Windows versions. Reaper probably uses a different font, since there are small differences in the letters at the small size.
I’ve done some experiments with alternative fonts. I also tried to set the small font to be aliased, while the normal font is anti-aliased, and frankly I think the two shown together looks horrible 😕
In a future update I’ll add the possibility for the user to select a custom font in Preferences.
