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by crazygringo 1036 days ago
No, "off" in this case merely implies different from what you're used to.

This is aesthetic preference, there's no such thing as "correct". It goes back to the old debate on Mac vs. Windows font rendering -- do you like pixel alignment or do you like letterform accuracy? There's no right answer.
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dataflow 1036 days ago
> No, "off" in this case merely implies different from what you're used to.

Kind of enough, but...

> This is aesthetic preference, there's no such thing as "correct".

"Correct" for the purposes of this discussion could be the normal OS rendering, and deviation from that is what would be "off"-ness.

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Dylan16807 1036 days ago
There's no right answer to that question, but Mac does render fonts too thin because of gamma issues, if I'm remembering right.
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