Forums » Impact Engine » Allow non-anti-aliased creation of fonts using Font-Tool.

I'm getting results like this when I using the font tool.
As you can see the font is being smoothed out.
Would be nice if there was an option to disable that.

This could be me completely out of my depth and rectalating an answer, but I think your font doesn't have enough hinting for small pixel sizes. I'm not sure the font tool can help you out.

If you render the font at 4pt in another graphics program, does it still come out okay?

I took the font called 04b03 (the same one that comes with ImpactJS), and increased the default size of 10 to 32. When I do so within Adobe Fireworks, it resizes with nice, crisp, clean edges.

Bah, oh well.

I had this other thought about the CSS font-smoothing property... it looks like the canvas in the font tool has "-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased" and maybe that's affecting the rendering but I don't think it's likely.

If you can, try rendering on different browsers (especially IE). Font rendering in IE might make use of ClearType on Windows and get you the results you want.

I'm just shooting my mouth off now, though.

Great news: Firefox renders the text nice and crisp.
Thank you for your suggestion to try different browsers drhayes!

Edit:

Actually, it appears inconsistent. Chrome renders the font blurry at size 32, but Firefox renders it crisp. However Firefox renders the same font blurry at size 30.