[abhinavk]

macOS uses grayscale anti-aliasing exclusively. But what it makes it work that well is the HiDPI (200+ dpi) displays Apple ships.

Use a 32-inch 4K display and it will have be blurry/thick fonts too.

[onli]

Absolutely. On my external display macos fonts looked horrible, way worse than on Linux.

[doublepg23]

I might be blind but I'm using 2x4K 32" displays on macOS and the fonts still look like paper to me. It was funny because every Apple commentator I had listened to made it seem like my retinas would melt out of sheer disgust if I didn't use a 5K display.

It looks night and day better than my 2x4K 27" I use with my Windows 11 work laptop, even with ClearType (That was a let down. I replaced 2x1080p 21" displays and expected that to fix the woeful fonts on Windows).