Monitor suggestions for text

[spotnyk]

Greetings,

 

I'll be brief

• I'm a developer
• Already got my gaming monitors
• Have five monitors, two of which are just for comms/research (read: text)
• Had to trade aforementioned two 1440p monitors to my wife in exchange for her 1080p monitors
• The 1080p is killing my eyes due to unclear text

EDIT: Must have VESA support

 

Looking for cheapish 27"+ 1440p monitors where refresh rate and color accuracy are of no concern (within reason).

 

Suggestions?

 

Thanks

[Alvin853]

Any special requirements? USB hub, pivot, height adjustable, small borders for having multiple screens next to each other, curved?

I would go with a VA panel, they're usually cheaper and the higher contrast ratio compared to IPS makes text a little easier to read, plus no IPS glow if you like inverted colors for coding (black background, white text). But any IPS should also be fine and they're usually a little easier to find.

 

The standard brands for productivity Monitors are Dell, HP, Lenovo, Philips, and to some extend Samsung and LG. I'm really liking my Philips ultrawide, but really any of these should suit you just fine. 

[emosun]

What aspect of your current monitors make the text not legible. Do they have non square subpixels or is the text you are reading not scaleable?

[Mihle]

Just curious, what size was the 1080p monitors?

[Chris Pratt]

If text clarity is your concern, I definitely wouldn't exceed 27” at 1440p. Anything bigger like 32" needs to be 4K or you'll still have issues.

[spotnyk]

9 minutes ago, Alvin853 said:

Any special requirements? USB hub, pivot, height adjustable, small borders for having multiple screens next to each other, curved?

I would go with a VA panel, they're usually cheaper and the higher contrast ratio compared to IPS makes text a little easier to read, plus no IPS glow if you like inverted colors for coding (black background, white text). But any IPS should also be fine and they're usually a little easier to find.

 

The standard brands for productivity Monitors are Dell, HP, Lenovo, Philips, and to some extend Samsung and LG. I'm really liking my Philips ultrawide, but really any of these should suit you just fine. 

Mainly just VESA support, as all of them are mounted (added this to the OP). My two primary displays are ultrawide (Acer X34 / LG 34UC80-B), but my side monitors are not (just not enough space). So I'm looking for 16:9/10 primarily.

 

5 minutes ago, emosun said:

What aspect of your current monitors make the text not legible. Do they have non square subpixels or is the text you are reading not scaleable?

Not sure. I've improved it a tad by messing with the panel sharpness, but for the most part at normal size I can see rgb sub-pixels (slightly, but enough). Also dropping text size down to the scale I'm used to gets almost unreadable.

 

4 minutes ago, Mihle said:

Just curious, what size was the 1080p monitors?

The 1080p monitors are 24" (my previous 1440p were 27")

 

2 minutes ago, Chris Pratt said:

If text clarity is your concern, I definitely wouldn't exceed 27” at 1440p. Anything bigger like 32" needs to be 4K or you'll still have issues.

Agreed. I'm really shooting for 27". I included + because if there was a really amazing deal on a slightly bigger one, I likely wouldn't pass it up.

[emosun]

4 minutes ago, spotnyk said:

Not sure. I've improved it a tad by messing with the panel sharpness, but for the most part at normal size I can see rgb sub-pixels (slightly, but enough). Also dropping text size down to the scale I'm used to gets almost unreadable.

If you set the monitor to monochrome do you still see the rgb subpixels? Might help to narrow it down to a monitor issue or a windows antialiasing issue

[spotnyk]

13 minutes ago, emosun said:

If you set the monitor to monochrome do you still see the rgb subpixels? Might help to narrow it down to a monitor issue or a windows antialiasing issue

I can still see them slightly. I assumed I was primarily experiencing a symptom of the antialiasing process with limited pixel density, which is why I am looking to increase that. I went through windows ClearType tuning stuff on this monitor before posting and was only able to achieve a very slight (if any) improvement.