Is This the Smallest Legible Font? Try Reading It

[loneninja]

I've got a 22" 1680x1050 display and I can only read it from about a foot from the screen, which leads to discomfort to the eyes from being so close. My eyes aren't the best though.

 

[togenshi]

Needs less anti-aliasing....

 

[toastninja17]

[citation][nom]toastninja17[/nom]Without ctrl+scroll on a 1280x1024 screen I can still read it just fine.[/citation]

Didn't mean to double post

 

[theshonen8899]

After bashing Microsoft's font, it's surprising that his doesn't do much better.

 

[dalauder]

I just want to say that I have 20/10 vision--significantly better than 20/20. The character's aren't what's hard to read--it's the close line spacing and the fact that they stuff a lowercase "y" up high without using the space below. So I guess "g", "j", & "y" confuse my eyes a bit because they're squished and out of alginment.

 

[55Range]

Not really legible- 1080 P

 

[mman74]

I suspect all those that claim to be able to read it, probably already know the passage. I on the other hand as a Brit with no idea what your declaration of independence says and 20/20 vision have to guess a lot of the words. Even if you copy and paste this text into a paint app and enlarge it you can see that quite simply there is not enough detail to define each letter and consequently you have to guess based off shading.

 

[rpgplayer]

i can read it on my 40" 1080p samsung tv lol

 

[saturnus]

Here's what I don't get: since LED (and amoled) panels are arranged as |RGB|RGB| pixels why not should make a controller that switches it to triple the viewing resolution without actually improved the disply resolution by having pixels going from [RGB|RGB| first, then to X|GBR|XX second and finally to XX|BRG|X. It would naturally depend on the capable refresh rate but most modern displays here no troble reaching the approximately 100Hz that would be absolute minimum for it to work.

 

[archange]

I have a better idea: ditch the QVGA (320×240) display format altogether; go for higher resolution.
As for myself, my phone just broke and i made it my mission to not get any 320x240 (or smaller) display device.

So says the man who read a ton of e-books on his 320x240 PDA...

 

[alidan]

[citation][nom]gweilo8888[/nom]Just barely, with loads of discomfort, and I'm on a 24", 1,920 x 1,200 pixel, properly calibrated display and have good uncorrected eyesight.[/citation]

same here, i vow to block anything that uses that font. it is a hell spawn.

 

[mrmez]

Even smaller @ 2560x1440, even on 27"

 

[TheCapulet]

[citation][nom]JasonAkkerman[/nom]Yes I can.... Windows Key + U > Start MagnifierEven then it's hard to read.[/citation]
That's because it is a compressed image. I can actually read this without zoom though, and I imagine the real thing is even more clear.

 

[thechief73]

Nice, another way the computer screen can hurt my eye's

 

[descendency]

I couldn't until I read the article and saw what it was. (I know the Declaration of Independence)

12.1 inch 1280x800 resolution (Lenovo x201 Thinkpad)

 

[stone-69]

yep, just barely, but it'll make my eyes hurt and give me a headache.
So I really don't see the point. The very reason people are getting bigger screens
is to be able to see more and still see things in a nice quality.
This is defenitely not nice quality.

 

[gti88]

I'd rather scroll pages than read small text.

 

[distanted]

This'll be the new font of choice for car dealerships, phone companies & credit card companies...and the people who make the antidepressants that have the 4 pages of side affects that include, but are not limited to, headaches, diarrhea, nausea, sudden death, delusions of deity, break dancing, conservatism, liberism, sudden-head-explosion-syndrome, overwhelming desire to eat one's own foot...

 

[Guest]

Try that on a retanal display

 

[wolfseeker2828]

I can read it just fine - although I have 20/13 vision.