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More specifically, Apple never made it good enough compared to alternatives, so no one used it. It eventually died at the hands of its maker.
by K0SM0S 7y ago
More specifically, Apple never made it good enough compared to alternatives, so no one used it. It eventually died at the hands of its maker.
- wlesieutre 7y agoIMO what killed it was the text rendering. They brought their font smoothing over from Mac OS and that's not what Windows users are acclimated to. It might be more "correct" in some ways, especially from a graphic design / typography standpoint, but it looks fuzzy when you put it next to ClearType on the same screen. https://damieng.com/blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosophies-of-windows-and-mac-os-x https://damieng.com/blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosoph... https://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-wrong-with-apples-font-rendering/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-wrong-with-apples-font-r...