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Regarding blurry fonts on you Macbook Retina: It only makes sense to set the resolution to match the number of hardware pixels. You cannot change the resolution
by joakleaf 12y ago
Regarding blurry fonts on you Macbook Retina: It only makes sense to set the resolution to match the number of hardware pixels. You cannot change the resolution of the hardware display, so any resolution other than the native resolution will look blurry as the system has to resample to match the hardware. This has nothing to do with OSX -- OSX can render fonts in any resolution.
... You can easily connect your Macbook Retina to an external monitor of any resolution. OSX is not limited to your Macbook Retina resolution.
On the iPhone6+ Apple could easily draw everything in 2.6x resolution to match the display, but I guess they feel using 3x+downsampling simplifies the UI-design process. From a technical point of view it is an unnecessary hack.
- jordanthoms 12y agoThe problem here is that you are conflating resolution with how big things are. They aren't the same. I want the resolution on my Macbook to always be 2880x1800. But I want to be able to make things bigger or smaller, while still rendering at that resolution so things don't have to be resampled. (and in the case of the iPhone 6+, the default/only setting requires this resampling). The problem is that when I set it to 'looks like 1680', rather than just rendering things natively at 2880x1800 but a little bit smaller, we have to get into all these scaling hacks (rendering at 3360 x 2100 and then scaling down to 2880x1800), which means you lose the accurate font rendering and clarity you got, everything has a slight blur to it because it's been scaled down.
- bluedino 12y agoFor this reason I much prefer how fonts look in Safari by scaling the browser down, and running at 'Best for Retina' instead of running at 'looks like 1440x900' and then leaving the fonts at the normal scale.