Ask HN: Warmer font color?

4 points by healthyhippo 15 years ago | 6 comments

I'm looking at some of the fonts on this page and trying to figure out why they look so much nicer than my regular ones in HTML. So, couple questions:

1. How do I get that colored warm look that the designer has used? (see pic)

http://imgur.com/rOy5T

healthyhippo 15 years ago |

I was actually talking about the colors to the side of the font-- the blues, oranges, and reds that shaded the outside of the black. It turns out that most type in my mac shows up like this, though it doesn't show up like that in inkscape where I've been doing my mockups.

Thanks all.

timrobinson 15 years ago | |

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering

moeffju 15 years ago |

This is an artifact of subpixel rendering ("ClearType" on Windows, subpixel antialiasing on OS X). The Wikipedia article is quite good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering

mbenjaminsmith 15 years ago |

You mean the off-black fonts? Blueprint CSS for one uses a dark gray for its fonts: #222222 and that gives it a warmer look.

sielskr 15 years ago | |

I regret the trend towards gray rather than black maintext.

brudgers 15 years ago | | |

Design for Hackers: Why Monet Never Used Black

http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/d4h-color-theory/