Ugly Text

[Mike]

If I write something on a website, using Verdana, 12pt, #000000, and then do the same on Photoshop, how come they look nothing alike? I put them up beside eachother here, and you can see how one looks way nicer, and the other just messy (the messy one was the one done in Photoshop).

I've always had problems with this.. How can I make the messy one look normal?

 

[Giro]

Are you adding any effects to the text? Haven't noticed that myself, i may look into that.

 

[Nick1337]

If I write something on a website, using Verdana, 12pt, #000000, and then do the same on Photoshop, how come they look nothing alike? I put them up beside eachother here, and you can see how one looks way nicer, and the other just messy (the messy one was the one done in Photoshop).

I've always had problems with this.. How can I make the messy one look normal?

Mmmm are you using firefox or IE?

 

[Mike]

Both do the exact same. The text in a browser (if I write it in a file), compared to an image, is very different.

 

[Parker]

Also check

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, and [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType]ClearType[/ame].

Image-editing programs such as Adobe Photoshop or Corel Paint Shop Pro bypass ClearType when rendering text directly, for precisely this reason.​

 

[Arcelor]

Clear type tuner is the answer :.

 

[Jhewt]

Disable the Anti-Aliasing for fonts in Photoshop of the text tool buddy (by default is Crisp)

the tool with 2 a (aa)

The anti-aliasing for fonts dependens on the client's webbrowser or in the OS you're running, in WindowsXP there's no AA at all in any font (only in the theme and really big fonts 15pt+), for example in MacOSX there's always the AA and looks really smooth and sexy.