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by mappu 3553 days ago
This project is using 'subpixel' not to refer to monitor subpixels, but instead, lost information between existing pixels in an image.

You're right though, and that's why chroma hinting for subpixel AA has fallen out of favor. It also doesn't work on mobile where the screen can be rotated from RGB-horz to RGB-vert at a moment's notice. This was changed for ClearType in Windows 8 (DirectWrite never did chroma hinting).