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Originally Posted by dugbug
K2 employs a new set of fonts or at least font rendering techniques designed to take advantage of the extra grayscale by smoothing/antialiasing the font edges. The letters appear more crisp in direct daylight, but loose a lot of contrast due to using less black pixels.
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I don't think this is correct. At least it wasn't for 2.0.1, it could be different for 2.0.3, but ted-san said earlier that it wasn't. Anyway, if you take a screenshot of a page of text and then look at it in a picture editor, you can see that both the K1 and K2 render all fonts in 2-bit greyscale. That's black, white, and two shades of grey (#555 & #AAA) for the anti-aliasing.
It is possible that because of the K2's increased palette that those two shades of grey render darker/lighter than on the K1 and this is what some people are perceiving as low contrast. I personally could never see a difference.