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D-ISS-O-CIA-TED@kbin.social to ELI5@kbin.social · 2 years ago

Why does text add other colors to itself when displayed on a computer? Example image is a screenshot of text set to black on a webpage

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D-ISS-O-CIA-TED@kbin.social to ELI5@kbin.social · 2 years ago
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    Nope. Apple used its own sub pixel rendering approach - that wasn’t ClearType. Apple emphasised fidelity of letter spacing - for layout designers - which made fonts at small size famously ‘soft’ or fuzzy. I rather liked the effect, others didn’t.

    They nuked in in MacOS Mojave with the rise of Retina displays

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonts_on_Macintosh#Subpixel_rendering

    https://www.howtogeek.com/358596/how-to-fix-blurry-fonts-on-macos-mojave-with-subpixel-antialiasing/

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