Subpixel anti-aliasing, both cleartype on windows and the implementation on linux, have always looked very rainbow-ish to me. It might look smoother to some, bu

Subpixel anti-aliasing, both cleartype on windows and the implementation on linux, have always looked very rainbow-ish to me. It might look smoother to some, but the colours are way too distracting and the first thing I do on a new OS is set fonts to NOT use rainbow-style anti-aliasing.