Best text renderer

[qwertz325]

Hello!

I've been trying to figure out which characteristics would count towards good text rendering and what monitor out there possesses the best combination of them.

It would seem to me that these characteristics would be contrast ratio (or more specifically reproduction of the colors which you use for the color of the text and the background), resolution and dot pitch.

Am I figuring this right?

Taking these parameters into account, I have come up with the lenovo L220X as the best choice, due to it's high DPI count and good contrast.

I am new to the monitor market so I'm not very knowledgable and I'm hoping someone could confirm (or provide different ones) that I am looking for the right attributes and looking at the right monitor.

 

[Menelmarar]

Contrast radio wouldn't help text much. It mainly helps for movies/games that have lots of variants of dark, or variants of light. When you have lots of white and black next to each other like with text, almost all LCD's look very good. There is a very good natural contrast between the light and dark pixels.

The cheap, crappy TN panels I hate look fine for text, web pages, word processing office applications.

Color reproduction is less important in your scenario IMO, cheap TN color reproduction is sufficient for the needs it sounds like your describing. Color reproduction is vital for high end DSLR photo editing and maybe high end graphic design where you have a lot of color gradients.

High resolution to provide desktop space is probably the most important attribute IMO.

 

[Michael Daly]

It all comes down to pixel size. The smaller, the better.

 

[albovin]

Hello!

It would seem to me that these characteristics would be contrast ratio (or more specifically reproduction of the colors which you use for the color of the text and the background), resolution and dot pitch.
Am I figuring this right?

Taking these parameters into account, I have come up with the lenovo L220X as the best choice, due to it's high DPI count and good contrast.

It would seem to me that these characteristics would be contrast ratio (or more specifically reproduction of the colors which you use for the color of the text and the background), resolution and dot pitch.
Am I figuring this right?

Yes, but you missed an important thing - brighness regulation.
Few monitors are able to reduce brightness to comfortable 100-130 cd/m2 maintaining high contrast ratio. Even less have equimpent to reduce eye strain (autobrightness, selection of brightness modes).

Taking these parameters into account, I have come up with the lenovo L220X as the best choice, due to it's high DPI count and good contrast.

Lenovo L220X seems to be the worst choice due to it's microscopic text.
Higher DPI count is an advantage (for pictures only) if you compare monitors of the same size. 22" vs 22".
So Lenovo has no advantage over 24" or 26" with the same resolution as higher DPI count is achieved by simply downsizing the screen.

 

[qwertz325]

Thanks for the responses!

I use very large fonts so the size of the text wouldn't be a problem. I was told that DPI count matters even if I use large font because it makes the text smoother, and because the pixels are close together it makes the contrast higher (less black spaces between the white pixels). I know this might seem like too trivial thing to make a difference, but from what I read, small things like this that we might not be concius of make a difference (I'll try to find some links later).

Yes, but you missed an important thing - brighness regulation.
Few monitors are able to reduce brightness to comfortable 100-130 cd/m2 maintaining high contrast ratio.

You are right, I have not even considered this. It seems to me it would be hard to find out which monitors' contrast holds up at low brightness. Any idea how I could find this info, it doesn't seem like something I'd be able to find in reviews.

Contrast radio wouldn't help text much. It mainly helps for movies/games that have lots of variants of dark, or variants of light. When you have lots of white and black next to each other like with text, almost all LCD's look very good. There is a very good natural contrast between the light and dark pixels.

Like I said, I've read that it in fact does make a difference even though we are not concious of it. It takes less effort from the eyes to discern the characters and makes a difference in the long sessions. I'll try to provide some links later, but maybe I've got the wrong info.

 

[qwertz325]

Sorry for bumping this but I have a deadline so I really need help on this.