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If this article made you think about how to get better text rendering here are a couple of suggestions for devs: Many terminal emulators have greyscale anti-al
by thworp 3y ago
If this article made you think about how to get better text rendering here are a couple of suggestions for devs:
Many terminal emulators have greyscale anti-aliasing as an option or default, I know and have tested:
- Windows Terminal (Windows) where you can set it in settings.json
- kitty (linux) where it is default
- You can probably get it globally in Linux through fontconfig settings, but I've never loked into that.
If you're on a display at or above 200 ppi (4k at 27") you can also disable font anti-aliasing completely. The effect that has on letter shapes (esp. in Windows) is pretty striking.
In chromium-based browsers and firefox there is a changing collection of about:config setting that control their Direct
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- lostmsu 3y ago> Windows Terminal (Windows) where you can set it in settings.json Wow thank you. I just switched from GrayScale antialiasing to ClearType, and the text quality seem to have improved. For the people who are interested, in UI it is in Settings -> Defaults -> Advanced.