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by zajio1am 840 days ago
> The idea is that we just place glyphs where the coordinates tell us, and if that is a fractional position somewhere between pixels, so be it, we can render the outline at that offset just fine. This approach works—if your output device has a high-enough resolution (anything above 240 dpi should be ok).

So it just requires 6x more memory, GPU power and HDMI/DP bandwidth and prevents usage of large monitors ...

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Don't high dpi screens consume more power as well?