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I use Windows at work for its killer feature I rarely see mentioned: text antialiasing and rendering. I believe (?) Freetype came very close to Cleartype in Li
by mcovalt 6y ago
I use Windows at work for its killer feature I rarely see mentioned: text antialiasing and rendering.
I believe (?) Freetype came very close to Cleartype in Linux land, but MS holds patents on the extra bit that makes Cleartype just a bit better.
I assume text antialiasing will be unnecessary in 10 years due to the rising ubiquity of high resolution monitors, but that day is not here yet. I’ve noticed that macOS has just completely bailed on text antialiasing. Hooking up my MacBook Air M1 to my 109 DPI monitor is a truly awful experience. On the other hand, text on the Retina screen is holy grail. However, holy grail is unattainable for me at the moment. LG Ultrafine monitors are too expensive.
Due to DirectWrite, it’s very easy to get an end-to-end best-in-class GPU accelerated text rendering experience on Windows.
- copperx 6y agoMac and Linux antialiasing are light years ahead of Windows, unless you are using 20 year old 100 DPI or lower monitors. Now that 4K is standard on laptops, and 5k on desktops, Cleartype is an artifact of antiquity.
- mcovalt 6y agoIs 5K standard on desktops? Where can I get a ~200 DPI 5K monitor for less than $1,299.95?
- iggldiggl 6y agoFirefox user data shows 4K at roughly 2 % and "other" resolutions (only part of which will be high DPI) at slightly less than 7 %.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Now that 4K is standard on laptops, and 5k on desktops, Neither of those are “standard”, they are both high end. On laptops FHD is still dominant. Desktop displays are more diverse, with beyond-FHD being more common than on laptops but split between 1080p-but-ultrawide, 1440p, 4K, and the rarer 5K+.