Everything about ClearType

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ClearTypeA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Cleartype Arizona CoThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: ClearType sub-pixel text rendering: Preference, legibility and reading performanceCited 23 times
4. Go sideways: Subpixel renderingA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Font rasterizationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• ClearType sub-pixel text rendering: Preference, legibility and reading performance

  Jim Sheedy, Yu-Chi Tai, Manoj Subbaram · 2008 · Displays · 23 citations

• Comparing the legibility of six ClearType typefaces to Verdana and Times New Roman

  Barbara S. Chaparro, A. Dawn Shaikh, Alex Chaparro · 2010 · Information Design Journal · 12 citations

• 47.4: Empirical Evaluation of User Responses to Reading Text Rendered Using ClearType™ Technologies

  Richard A. Tyrrell, Thad B. Pasquale, Thomas Aten · 2001 · SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers · 8 citations

• 47.2: Visual Preference for ClearType Technology

  Joyce Farrell, Jiajing Xu, Kevin Larson · 2009 · SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers · 5 citations

• Legibility of Words Rendered Using Cleartype™

  Thomas R. Aten, Leo Gugerty, Richard A. Tyrrell · 2002 · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 4 citations

• Personality of Cleartype Fonts

  A. Dawn Shaikh, Barbara S. Chaparro, Doug Fox · 2006 · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 2 citations

• The Legibility of Cleartype Fonts

  Barbara S. Chaparro, A. Dawn Shaikh, Alex Chaparro · 2006 · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 2 citations

• The Influence of Microsoft's ClearType® on Programmer Productivity

  Randolph G. Bias, James Patrick Williams, Ding-Yu Chung · 2005 · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Cleartype Arizona Co
• 📕Cleartype California Co
• 📕Cleartype Colorado Co
• 📕Cleartype Idaho Co
• 📕Cleartype Montana Co
• 📕Cleartype Nevada Co
• 📕Cleartype Oregon Co
• 📕Cleartype Utah Co

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🔗 Related topics

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• Font hinting Font hinting, also known as instructing, is the use of mathematical instructions to adjust the display of an outline font so that it lines up with a rasterized…
• Pixel geometry The components of the pixels (primary colors red, green and blue) in an image sensor or display can be ordered in different patterns, called pixel geometry…
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