I don’t have a single Mac app that assumes anything about 96 dpi... Yeah, this is the point where I was like: I'm sorry, but this seems so wrong that it casts

I don’t have a single Mac app that assumes anything about 96 dpi... Yeah, this is the point where I was like: I'm sorry, but this seems so wrong that it casts the whole article into doubt for me. Anything written in the OS X era doesn't have any assumptions about DPI baked into it -- and if any application in the "classic" MacOS era baked in an assumption about DPI, it would have been 72, not 96, because Apple stuck with a "1 pixel = 1 point" mantra in the (very) early years. One of the entire points of OS X's Quartz rendering system, which was basically "Display PDF," was to be effectively device-independent. There were no enforced assumptions about resolution. There are arguments to be made that ClearType is a better technology for rendering text on displays than Quartz, but it's folly to pretend that there's not subjectivity to it. Personally, I've long preferred Quartz's rendering approach in nearly all cases; the text is arguably softer, but particularly on non-HiDPI displays, the letter spacing with ClearType often seems subtly off in ways that I find more distracting.