[kevin_thibedeau]

You don't have to do subpixel AA. It's arguably worse on modern high DPI displays because of the color fringing that wouldn't be present with grayscale AA.

[arghwhat]

Subpixel AA is always bad - it just might be a necessary but disgusting hack on screens with too low resolution to render fonts comfortably...

Screenshots and screen recordings of subpixel AA content is foo without magic to get clients to disable such rendition during capture...

[thanatos519]

How about subpixel hinting? A white 1-pixel vertical line has the same amount of fringing whether it's RGB or GBR or BRG.