[slater]

"For decades OS X remained a very ugly baby"

wtf...? I know it's only their opinion, but jeez that is one hot take.

I've been using OSX/macOS since ~2005, and in comparison, Windows (and heaven forbid you had to use Linux) had the absolute worst font rendering ever. Even today it looks horrible.

Update:

Hah, just read their FAQ, quote:

"Q: Why bother, just buy a HiDPI screen?

A: In my opinion and experience, HiDPI is a niche gimmick similar to 3D movies."

https://pandasauce.org/get-fonts-done/

[krona]

Doesn't HiDPI "Retina display" prove the point; ClearType won when it comes to rendering. Due to patents, the solution was to quadruple the number of pixels, making subpixel hinting and anti-aliasing mostly redundant.

[iSnow]

I am a bit confused, as I don't think it proves the point. HiDPI is so much easier on the eye than subpixel rendering. HiDPI screens look closer to print than to 96 DPI Windows 7.

Maybe that's just me b/c I always found the color fringes irritating, but I am very happy that 4K displays are now more or less standard.

[mrweasel]

That's my experience, I strongly dislike ClearType, it always looked blurry, even with all the tweaking Microsoft allowed you to do it new became really clear and sharp like on the mac. Sadly Linux seems to have gone the Windows route and smudged the fonts, rather than making them clearer and sharper.

If HiDPI is what made fonts on macOS what they are, then there's now way around it, we have to rid ourselves of none HiDPI display.

[amluto]

And yet current Safari on current MacOS renders text in the HN comment box very poorly.