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by smegsicle 1639 days ago
note that macos eschews the subpixel rendering strategies other major vendors use to increase sharpness and legibility at reasonable DPI
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smichel17 1639 days ago
I am not sure how to parse your sentence, because I don't know whether your "reasonable" means low or high. It could be

1. Other major vendors use subpixel rendering strategies to increase sharpness and legibility at reasonable DPI. MacOS eschews these strategies.

2. Other major vendors use subpixel rendering strategies. MacOS eschews these strategies to increase sharpness and legibility at reasonable DPI.

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reacharavindh 1639 days ago
That is sad news. I have a Linux Desktop that emits not so sharp text on my 1440p monitor. I always attributed to that bad text rendering to the low DPI monitor. I was hoping that one day I could buy a hidpi monitor that would make my Linux desktop as friendly to my eyes as my MacBook Pro. Looks like not anytime soon :-(
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smegsicle 1638 days ago
I meant that (imo) Windows's 'ClearType' hinting is sharp and easy to read at lower DPI-- Linux font rendering can be configured as 'hintslight' for MacOS-style blurry-but-preserving-font-shape, or 'hintfull' for MSWin-style aggressively-snap-to-grid-for-sharpness-and-legibility.

There is ofcourse more that can be misconfigured, but if you've got blurry fonts on Linux, there's a good chance changing the hintstyle to hintfull could tighten things up.

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