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If your antialiasing is making things look fuzzy, then you are either positioning yourself too close to the display, or your display has too low resolution.

When you’re talking about digital camera LCDs, do you mean the display on the back of the camera? Those are mostly awful, I just ignore them. :-)

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It can also be a display gamma issue, which will be worse at some angles on TN displays.

But beyond that, disabling antialiasing and using a pixel font (like Terminus) gives an effectively higher perceived resolution than one would expect from modeling a display as a collection of point samples.

Isn't your first statement tautological? I'm also in the apparent minority to whom font antialiasing (subpixel or not) on low-ppi screens, e.g., 22" at 1920x1080, seems a bit blurry, even when leaning back. Certainly though, there are implementations of different quality: I find ClearType the most acceptable.

As far as I am aware, I have yet to see non-antialiased fonts rendered on a high-ppi screen, but it would be interesting to see to what degree antialiasing is still necessary on such screens.

Luckily there are now displays with ~22″ diagonal and 3840×2160 pixels.

These look much better than the 1920×1080 ones.

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