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Doesn’t OLED pixel layout not line up with modern text rendering engines? At least that’s what I believe I’ve read from reports on banding around text on Window
by imbnwa 2y ago
Doesn’t OLED pixel layout not line up with modern text rendering engines? At least that’s what I believe I’ve read from reports on banding around text on Windows in particular that makes long-running text work a problem.
- wmf 2y agoThat depends which OLED panel you're talking about; they're not all the same.
- imbnwa 2y agoSee reply to sibling
- ipsum2 2y agoPeople read text on the OLED screen of the iPad Pro all the time.
- imbnwa 2y agoYeah think its a ClearType issue[0] specifically then [0]https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/25595 https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/25595
- jpgvm 2y agoFreetype also doesn't do the right thing on RGBW at least. Reading code in the repo suggests it's possible to reconfigure it to work properly with the Harmony algorithm but I haven't worked out how yet. If anyone knows how to sponsor efforts to fix this I would totally contribute to that. A separate problem is that I don't think there is a standard way for monitors to communicate the subpixel layout in such a way the font rendering engine will have access to it. That seems like a pretty big oversight when introducing these in the first place.
- PittleyDunkin 2y agoI can't imagine subpixel rendering is at all worth it on modern DPIs
- cosmic_cheese 2y agoShouldn’t be an issue under macOS for the most part, which has used grayscale antialiasing for several years since subpixel AA isn’t of much benefit with HiDPI displays and complicates text rendering considerably. If there are any problems, it’ll probably be with cross platform software that doesn't use native text rendering and assumes RGB subpixel arrangements instead of obeying the system.