8px font size works fine with good hinting. In general, 1080p would be a near-optimal resolution given pixel-perfect rendering. Higher resolutions are useful when the rendering is too fuzzy, they're simply about hiding that imperfection.
Come back when you have tried that with CJK. There is no font or rendering that can make that comfortable to read.
If it works for you, great, I'm just tired of people telling me I don't understand what I want and I shouldn't have to write a blog post justifying myself everytime I claim that higher screen res makes a huge difference for my use-case. It's not like Chinese language is an edge-case.
Sure, but nobody is using 8pt CJK fonts. Even with a 5k panel, you wouldn't be able to resolve their shape without the equivalent of a magnifying glass (i.e. focusing on a smaller section of the screen). Talk about eye tiring.
*px but yes, precisely my point (wouldn't be so sure about "nobody", though...). On higher resolutions, more pixels in the same physical size. I find 10~12 all good, depending on circumstances.
But physical size is exactly what matters wrt. resolving a shape. Already at 1080p, the pixels are too small to resolve individually when comfortably looking at the screen. So there's really nonbenefit to such tiny character sizes.
> Already at 1080p, the pixels are too small to resolve individually when comfortably looking at the screen.
No, and people perpetuating this myth is what annoys me - that physical size is comfortable for me and that's what I use on a daily basis.
Try 8px font of full-width Chinese characters on 14" 1080p next to the same effective physical size on a 4k and if you still tell me it's too tiny to tell, well, I guess we have different eyesight and preferences.
Th e so called perfect rendering you're referring to is just infinite layers of havkd that rely on the subpixel layout of your panel to appear smooth. Monospaced, unaliased bitmap fonts will look great and I use them too, but most fonts out there are not designed to be pixel perfect but instead to be rasterized to different sizes, and for that, higher resolutions do help.
