[Matthias247]

I don’t know the details, but on my 4K screen different applications font rendering looks very has a very noticeable difference in quality. Eg IntelliJ looks great, and afaik uses some form of subpixel Rendering. Where’s VS Code looks kind of crappy since the update to macOS Mojave, which as far as I understood changed font rendering

[microcolonel]

Yeah, at distances people actually view displays at, there is still a benefit to subpixel rendering and some amount of hinting, even on "retina" displays.

Far as I'm concerned, high res displays help hinting do less damage, but they don't render it obsolete.