I am using an unordered HTML list to display some text in JEditorPane. The HTML sample looks like this:
<ul><li>Cautious</li>
<li>Curious</li>
</ul>
This works well and well, but, oddly enough, the bullets created <li>do not look equally high quality as the text next to it. (Running Mac OS 10.7.5, if that matters). Circular bullets look block and pixel:
Normal scale:

Reduced:

As is especially noticeable when it is enlarged, it is just a block of pixels that are not symmetrical and do not have any form of smoothing, which makes a less convincing circular marker point. Compared to the text next to it, it looks “off” for the perceptive eye, even with normal scaling.
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