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keh566

  • May 5, 2023
  • Joined Apr 17, 2023
  • In Font sharpening, outlining in Android vs iOS

    Do you mean Android 9? I was trying to read some text on many smartphones at supermarket, from budget to flagships and this issue seems to be totally random. Like for example there were some pretty nice IPS panel in Motorola smartphones and some of them had this oversharpened text, some of them no oversharpened but with supposedly BGR font smoothing instead of RGB (text had this reddish-greenish tint).

    This is pretty absurd on high dpi screens… And probably font antialiasing can be changed during Android updates to some other settings, probably still chosen by accident by phone manufacturer.

    To do justice - in iPhones text rendering and default fonts are much more polished.

  • In Font sharpening, outlining in Android vs iOS

    Searching for Pixel 2 XL replacement i was reading the same articles on iPhone 13 and Samsung Galaxy A32. Every of those screens is high DPI, more or less flickering OLED. What I've observed is that on Android phones rendered text is artificially sharpened, similiar to delicate outline (not the outline from Android accesibility settings). Effect is similar to often oversharpened fonts in Windows.

    Reading some text on Android I feel like ants going around letters and this effect is much, much smaller on iOS.

    Do you have similar observations?

  • In Coffee and stress

    For me drinking coffee seems to have different effects, depending on brewing method and hunger. If I drink coffee without eating something big, I have problems with concentration, then switching through windows on my monitor during worktime more often and then comes the eye strain in greater effect.

  • In Welcome to LED Strain!

    Hi, when I was a child I was sensitive to fluorescent lights, remember times when it was impossible looking at the blackboard during classes, because it was painful. At the same time playing games on Atari connected to 15 inch black and white CRT TV was not a problem for me 🙂

    After couple of years problem passed, but still - for reading books I was changing bulbs in lamps to incandescent, because I've started to see flickering from CFL bulbs. Long starring at CRT monitor was causing mild headache but that was all.

    Couple of years ago I've bought myself Google Pixel 2 XL and then I've experienced what poor quality display can do to eyesight - reading everything on this smartphone is just irritating, I was trying differrent lighting conditions, different screen brightness, different text colour on white, sepia, mid-gray, black backgrounds - there is some difference, but I just have enough of flickering screens and probably temporal dithering. My problem is that I need a smartphone that is respecting privacy, but GrapheneOS is not a solution for me, it's just working on Pixels.

    So here I am, reading all this post, being thankful that my problem is not severe (yet) and searching for privacy-respecting smartphone. Problably only mid-solution is Iphone SE for me.

    For many users here working with screen couple hours a day I can recommend graphic monitors, like Eizo or NEC and colorimeter to make yourself profiles respecting different environment light conditions.

    If you are stuck with flickering display with PWM brightness correction try setting up the brightness to 100%, then lower contrast- for android smartphones for example there is Red Moon app, for computer monitor there are controls in menu - this is temporal solution of course.

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