[Bug] EV3 font looks "thin"

[laurensvalk]

The current EV3 font appears somewhat hard to read. Lines look thin or uneven. I wasn't initially able to put a finger on it, but it becomes quite clearly visible if you compare it to the original.

The best way is to compare it in real life since the pictures don't really do it justice (I would even say it looks OK on these pictures). Fortunately you can at least see it to some extent, so it isn't just my eyesight 😎.

Or maybe we're just encoding the triplets incorrectly, so they don't appear at the intended full brightness?

It seems to look fine in simulation. (Which doesn't bother with the triplets. I suppose we could simulate that too...)

Tagging @schodet for an extra pair of eyes and ideas.

[laurensvalk]

Or maybe we're just encoding the triplets incorrectly, so they don't appear at the intended full brightness?

We aren't doing any anti-aliasing ourselves, right? Then this picture might support the incorrect encoding theory:

• Notice the grayscale left side of the P in Port
• Notice the different colors in the horizontal and vertical components of the first o in Motor, and also in the second.

[laurensvalk]

Or maybe we're just encoding the triplets incorrectly, so they don't appear at the intended full brightness?

This was it. Fix incoming...

[Eggmanplant]

Why is the logo so thick?

[laurensvalk]

That is primarily a proof of concept. There aren't that many pixels to go by, though, so we might leave it out.

The main technical issue of some pixels getting the wrong color has been resolved.

[schodet]

Funny we did not see this before, nice catch!

[laurensvalk]

It had bothered me since we had text support, but I hadn't gotten around to finding the cause.

Now text looks great, so I'm even happier with your image/font code ;)