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Old 02-27-2014, 07:51 PM   #104
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Originally Posted by EndlessWaves View Post
I find the high contrast of sharp edged text much preferable to the more rounded but fuzzier effect produced by smoothing/anti-aliasing/subpixel rendering etc.
I'm with you when it comes to aesthetics but I believe you're somewhat imprecise technically. ClearType in Windows is quite sharp but it does use subpixel rendering— granted, to a very different effect than, say, the Mac text rendering engine.
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