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by donatj 488 days ago
> Patching ClearType is unfortunately not as straightforward as it should have been. In an ideal world, you just change the sampling kernel your rasterizer uses to match the subpixel layout (with perceptual corrections) and you’re done. In our world, it takes hackery of Lovecraftian levels of horrifying to display crisp text using a vector font

Can you explain why that is? Is it a bed Microsoft made or something more intrinsic to font rendering generally?