[lcrs]

The antialiasing linear vs. gamma debate is an interesting one - check out this conversation, wherein nobody could figure out a reasoned method other than "sometimes AA in sRGB looks good"... https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/512371399542202368

[vladdanilov]

My reply on Twitter in full:

Text blending in linear space perceived as “too thin” and inconsistent because font weights are choosen for the sRGB [1].

With light fonts at small sizes, sRGB blending also has apparent weight changes with the background [2].

But with bold fonts, the weight is consistent only shapes are perfectly smooth with the linear blending [3].

And with more colors, the sRGB blending is a failure [4].

[1] http://i.imgur.com/qKDfCnj.png [2] http://i.imgur.com/Z6sOUNI.png [3] http://i.imgur.com/sTosihk.png [4] http://i.imgur.com/fLpe150.png