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Anti-aliased fonts?

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3ngel:
I would like to put up this thread, 'cause after some time i wanted to see if there were any progress in antialiased fonts, 'cause my intention was (as ever) to switch to rockbox.

Reading this thread i rightly understood that doing a "realtime" antialiasing is cpu consuming and it's not possible with ipod (or others CPU).

My idea i already said in another post was to add support for COLOR fonts, or at least GREYSCALE fonts. In this way one could do a pre-renderized set of colored or greyscale antialiased fonts.

I did not receive reply to this suggestion, so i would ask now, what do you think about it (that is add support for color/greyscale fonts)? :)

Llorean:
How could this work without translucency.

3ngel:
Because there would be no need for translucency.
The aliased fonts would be pre-rendered and adapted to the specific theme, for example on white background.
The only color hole would be (in the extreme case) on the background of the font character, that is a simple one color hole.
The concept of color fonts presume that each set is adapted to the theme that uses it.
Obviosly that wont work that well on pictures background, but you can't have anything, and in every case this would be better that not having any antialias in any case :)

Llorean:
So the whole font system should be rewritten for a change that only works on the few themes that have a solid color background that is identical in all screens, and that we should increase the font buffer, as is necessary for this, at the cost me everyone who does not use a theme designed like this?

3ngel:
Well, i don't know if this is so complicated to develop.
My suggestion is just one for those who don't use a picture background, but a solid background, and i think it's kinda 50%.
Don't take it personally, i think the more the options available the best a program is :)
It would be something like "I want to do or use a theme with a solid background and i have this goodies of antialiased fonts" :)

EDIT:
Or you can do just a switch for the theme that can signal the core that uses color fonts. In other case the kernel uses standard fonts.

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