The article is from 2018 and that should be mentioned in the title
I would love to see an update on what has improved and what is the same
The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
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Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
#12I can't really agree with this at all. I am a very design-heavy person who has been using a Mac professionally since the x86 transition, and have very strong opinions about font rendering, color accuracy, etc. About 2 years ago, I built a beast of a Linux workstation and use it with a 5K Apple Studio Display. Everything looks flawless and pixel perfect.
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
#13I still don't know why MacOS can't render sharp text on 1440p external monitor.
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
#14What’s wrong with the v35 freetype picture? He writes like it is immediately obvious, but it seems fine.
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
#15I can't really agree with this at all. I am a very design-heavy person who has been using a Mac professionally since the x86 transition, and have very strong opinions about font rendering, color accuracy, etc. About 2 years ago, I built a beast of a Linux workstation and use it with a 5K Apple Studio Display. Everything looks flawless and pixel perfect.
Yeah, I'm happy with my Linux font rendering for sure, and I would say generally it's more Apple-esque, so some reasonably large degree of this is just opinion and preference.
There was definitely a time when, to get good results, you had to do a lot more tweaking, setting things in fontconfig, using patched Freetype, but I don't really experience that anymore now for quite some time. I do still bring around a fonts.conf to my machines basically out of habit... the only relevant thing it does now probably is disable embedded bitmaps.
It's always a little bit of whiplash seeing how different this very site looks when I occasionally am on a Windows machine, with Verdana rendering quite differently there, and to my mind, worse.
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
#16I still don't know why MacOS can't render sharp text on 1440p external monitor.
Because 1440p is not a sharp external monitor.
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
#17The article is from 2018 and that should be mentioned in the title
I would love to see an update on what has improved and what is the same
Yeah even the flag they are talking about doesn't exist in Chrome anymore. Skia is the only text rendering I ever suffer under Linux, so whether or not Skia works properly is the only thing that makes a difference to me.
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
#18Windows has the worst font rendering of all modern operating systems. Wanting anything like Windows font rendering is insane. Windows 10 makes it near impossible to properly turn off subpixel hinting without also turning off all anti-aliasing, which on a QD-OLED screen makes for horrific color fringing. Windows 11 is better, but still pretty weak. Linux is roughly as good as Mac OS, both of which are miles better tha…
Heavily disagree as a longtime Linux user. I don't know about MacOS but Windows has always had better font rendering than Linux in my experience.
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
#19I think Linux font rendering looks fine (although it has noticeably gotten better since this post was last updated in 2019) but I absolutely agree that MacOS has the worst looking font rendering. And I was using it on a genuine MacBook Pro! Discussions otherwise have convinced my that apparently font rendering just isn't objective but is opinion based
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)
#20I still don't know why MacOS can't render sharp text on 1440p external monitor.
Well see Apple doesn't sell 1440p external monitors, so the answer is you should stop using that trash and move to one that brute forces the sharpness problem and costs way too much because it has an Apple logo on it