[gilrain]

> the whole point of sub pixels was to look sharp without looking colorful

That was the point, but it never worked: in practice, at least for me, text was smeary and colorful in that era. I wouldn’t want to use Coral Pixel, but I can imagine someone else being nostalgic for it.

[tosti]

Same here. The MS-Windows boxes at college had lots of coral reef around the glyph edges