Tom Horsley wrote:
For me, it turns out that the best settings are described by the dialog as: Font rendering: Best shapes In the details... dialog I have Smoothing: Grayscale Hinting: Medium Subpixel order: RGB (though that didn't really seem to have an effect if I changed it).
I think the subpixel order will only have an effect when subpixel smoothing is selected, so with greyscale smoothing you'd expect no difference.
I too tend to find greyscale easier on the eye than subpixel, the rainbow fringing with subpixel is offputting (even with correct RGB/BGR order)
though for the moment with DejaVu Sans I've left subpixel turned on.
The fonts actually look OK on my 52 dot per inch display with these settings (on the other hand I didn't need to change anything to make the original fonts look OK :-).
52dpi, what display is that low?