Users will want to be able to read text used in user interfaces. No one want to dumb the display down they want the higher native resolution for their images will be a closer match to their print sizes and be very sharp. I hold an iPhone 4 closer to my face than a 2nd gen iPod touch. You'll have to click on this to see it properly.Īm I the only one confused why people buy into doubly dense displays and then want to dumb them down by making elements on them twice as large? That seems wasteful. a macro photo of the text actually rendered on an LCD display. Most folks may not realize that the effective horizontal resolution on a 100ppi RGB LCD display when font smoothing is employed that uses color-precompensation is raised to much higher than 100 ppi. I imagine it will be easier to see things in the actual Photos under edit as well.Īnd let's not fault those who'd like the UI elements the same size they are now, but just beautifully formed, with smooth, clean, non-pixelated letters. The advantage of the higher pixel density obviously is that when you want to you can really pack the information into that display because the pixels are there for the using. In all seriousness, I can imagine wanting to make parts of the UI a bit bigger on a 200+ ppi display, but maybe not double in size (i.e., so they'd be smaller than they physically are now on a 100 ppi display, but somewhat above microscopic). Applications like Photoshop will need to adjust the size of there GUI so these new larger fonts will fit and adobe will need a set of icon for high resolution displays which will be hitting the market.ĭon, you're under 30, right? Think back on this in about 25 years when the old eyes don't focus on close things quite so well any more. So I'm sure Apple has included larger font for this display. The average user will not be able to read todays font. While the Apple display has fewer pixels then the T221 it is also smaler and has a pixel density of pixels 220PPI.

Having used an IBM 22' T221 display with a 204DPI I can tell you font size need to be addressed.

When you make fonts for higher resolution displays other thing will break like forms menu bars etc for they now need to be larger to hold the greater number of pixels fonts will be so they are readable. At this resolition normal things used today like text and icon become very small to a point that for many with their eye site they are unreadable for they were designed for screens with a 100dpi resolution. With a resolution if 220 DPI/PPI what ever you preferred term is. Support really doesn't know what the new display means yet.

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