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We at Cogniance are heavily focused on providing thought leadership in cutting edge software technologies and methodologies. We're also focused on sharing this knowledge through different ways, including research papers.
Designing cartography systems
Summary
There have been a lot of talks and new projects built around maps and cartography services, but it seems like there's no much enthusiasm to create beautiful maps. While I agree that not everybody is great at building a perfect map, it's certainly nice to have some tools to do that. This article will try to highlight current solutions and their highs and lows. But at first, some theory is necessary.
Creating pixel-perfect text of small size in Adobe Photoshop
Creating pixel-perfect text of small size in Adobe Photoshop
Summary
Delicate nuances play an important role in design whether you're creating website, print design, desktop or mobile application. When you create graphics that contains small text, such as buttons, menu items, symbols on virtual keyboard etc., any blur of characters makes the bitmap look inaccurate. This can make overall appearance of the design product significantly worse.
You can endlessly blame Photoshop or font creators, but this won't help. However, there are more effective ways to make blurry text sharper. From this paper, you will learn how to avoid font problems and create bitmaps with pixel-perfect text of small size.