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if you were to do something crazy like say use a 48" oled tv as a monitor, then MacType is perfectly necessary because cleartype looks terrible on rgbw subpixel
by gfody 4y ago
if you were to do something crazy like say use a 48" oled tv as a monitor, then MacType is perfectly necessary because cleartype looks terrible on rgbw subpixel and the only alternatives (switch cleartype to grayscale or disabled aa) look even worse. freetype looks beautiful on rgbw.
- NBJack 4y agoStrange, I've had just the opposite experience. If anything, at least for my vision, the 'fuzziness' of Mac font rendering becomes even more pronounced and harder on my eyes on larger screens. I always assumed it was just optimized for smaller high DPI monitors.
- gfody 4y agocome to think about it, I left out the part where I spent an hour customizing my settings. none of the bundled profiles looked very good on my screen.
- AnthonBerg 4y ago55” OLED here – it’s great!, and not at all crazy. And Ican confirm that MacType works really well.