The sad state of font rendering on Linux
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The sad state of font rendering on Linux
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Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux
#2"For decades OS X remained a very ugly baby"
wtf...? I know it's only their opinion, but jeez that is one hot take.
I've been using OSX/macOS since ~2005, and in comparison, Windows (and heaven forbid you had to use Linux) had the absolute worst font rendering ever. Even today it looks horrible.
Update:
Hah, just read their FAQ, quote:
"Q: Why bother, just buy a HiDPI screen?
A: In my opinion and experience, HiDPI is a niche gimmick similar to 3D movies."
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux
#3Oh come on, put the date in the headline. I have none of these kerning issues on my boxes.
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux
#4This is a terrible post. Most professional typesetters/publishers use macOS for a reason and have for decades.
Also this blog post is 5 years old and woefully out of date anyway.
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux
#5"For decades OS X remained a very ugly baby" wtf...? I know it's only their opinion, but jeez that is one hot take. I've been using OSX/macOS since ~2005, and in comparison, Windows (and heaven forbid you had to use Linux) had the absolute worst font rendering ever. Even today it looks horrible. Update: Hah, just read their FAQ, quote: "Q: Why bother, just buy a HiDPI screen? A: In my opinion and experience, HiDPI is…
That's my experience, I strongly dislike ClearType, it always looked blurry, even with all the tweaking Microsoft allowed you to do it new became really clear and sharp like on the mac. Sadly Linux seems to have gone the Windows route and smudged the fonts, rather than making them clearer and sharper.
If HiDPI is what made fonts on macOS what they are, then there's now way around it, we have to rid ourselves of none HiDPI display.
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux
#6"For decades OS X remained a very ugly baby" wtf...? I know it's only their opinion, but jeez that is one hot take. I've been using OSX/macOS since ~2005, and in comparison, Windows (and heaven forbid you had to use Linux) had the absolute worst font rendering ever. Even today it looks horrible. Update: Hah, just read their FAQ, quote: "Q: Why bother, just buy a HiDPI screen? A: In my opinion and experience, HiDPI is…
And yet current Safari on current MacOS renders text in the HN comment box very poorly.
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux
#7"For decades OS X remained a very ugly baby" wtf...? I know it's only their opinion, but jeez that is one hot take. I've been using OSX/macOS since ~2005, and in comparison, Windows (and heaven forbid you had to use Linux) had the absolute worst font rendering ever. Even today it looks horrible. Update: Hah, just read their FAQ, quote: "Q: Why bother, just buy a HiDPI screen? A: In my opinion and experience, HiDPI is…
Doesn't HiDPI "Retina display" prove the point; ClearType won when it comes to rendering. Due to patents, the solution was to quadruple the number of pixels, making subpixel hinting and anti-aliasing mostly redundant.
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux
#8This is a terrible post. Most professional typesetters/publishers use macOS for a reason and have for decades. Also this blog post is 5 years old and woefully out of date anyway.
This article also points a finger at macos for having bad rendering too.
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux
#9This is a terrible post. Most professional typesetters/publishers use macOS for a reason and have for decades. Also this blog post is 5 years old and woefully out of date anyway.
This article also points a finger at macos for having bad rendering too.
I think that is what they are commenting on: it seems odd that the typesetters all use MacOS if it has some terrible font rendering issue.
Re: The sad state of font rendering on Linux
#10Almost all of this is out-of-date with newer freetype/fontconfig/toolkits. Subpixel positioning is a default thing on most distros, grayscale AA is the sane distro default (due to the proliferation of alternative subpixel layouts), and Harfbuzz shaping has become near-universal.