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the lack of font and icon smoothing in old windows was always off-putting apple and linux fonts/icons always looked much nicer to me
by 5350-uiop-1130 3y ago
the lack of font and icon smoothing in old windows was always off-putting
apple and linux fonts/icons always looked much nicer to me
- prima-facie 3y agoI don't find the initial Cleartype algorithm used by Windows to be exactly good either. You could tell from miles away that it's distorting fonts significantly in order to fit them into the pixel matrix. I think they've improved it for Windows 10/11 though.
- baal80spam 3y ago> You could tell from miles away that it's distorting fonts significantly in order to fit them into the pixel matrix. You could? To me, the jump from Windows 98 to Windows 2000 was MASSIVE when it comes to readability.
- prima-facie 3y agoI'm referring to the original Cleartype introduced around Windows XP - if I recall correctly. The hinting used was quite aggressive.