new monitor --> bad fonts?

[John Hupp]

On 9/28/2014 5:37 PM, thufir wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Sep 2014 19:47:18 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
>
>
>> I'm sure you have considered this possibility, but anyway: Lower
>> resolutions make everything look chunkier than in higher resolutions. If
>> you are slumming it at 1280x1024 after getting used to something
>> significantly better, you may just be the victim of your own refined
>> tastes
> Maybe it's the opposite!  The old monitor was 15', this one is 17'.  I
> downgraded the resolution from 1280x1024 to 1064x768.  Maybe I'm just
> going blind.
>
> I dunno, it doesn't look chunkier, it looks smoother and easier to read...
>
> -Thufir
>
>

Smoother, larger, perhaps easier to read on those counts -- but less 
sharp -- that's exactly what I would expect in this circumstance.