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Main font looks as if it has no anti-aliasing or hinting applied

Open kaoneko opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

Hi, the app looks really smooth, but the font doesn't! One user on the Play Store wrote "the fonts look too grainy, better fonts would be seriously appreciated". From your reply to that review I gather you don't experience this yourself. For me, I'm seeing it both on my device and in the Android Studio emulator, which emulates a "Nexus 5X API 28 x86".

I don't know much about Android development, but I managed to change the font in the source code to other system fonts, but they have the same problem.

Here's a screenshot from the emulator. When you look closely or zoom in you can see that the issue is only with the list items, all the other UI text (e.g. app name, list names, add new item) looks smooth. Maybe you can find out what you did differently for the list items?

emulator

kaoneko avatar Dec 06 '20 20:12 kaoneko

This is right, the grainy fonts never jmped to my eyes before I zoomed on your screenshot. Now I can see them. To be able to swipe the items the system "draws" the text on a canvas. I don't think I can do much for it as this is handled by a lib I'm using (advancedrecyclerview). I'll see if I can make it look bettter.

lolo-io avatar Dec 07 '20 21:12 lolo-io

I have an even worse experience than the OP: Screenshot_20210419-094758 It's a pity, because I would love to use 1List, but it puts too much strain on the eyes to work with the list.

sphh avatar Apr 19 '21 07:04 sphh

@lolo-io Isn't the issue fixed in the develop branch by commit 4f6b2c65f5a2888835bba8f34ffc58eae597e94e ?

lrq3000 avatar Jan 13 '23 08:01 lrq3000