![]() ![]() OS X does of course, given its focus on publishing. Just FYI, Windows most certainly does not scale fonts linearly. You claim that freetype doesn't scale the fonts smoothly, but then you also claim Windows does it correctly. With regard to the freetype font size rendering. This is quite the extraordinary claim - that a company that is otherwise known for design would not focus on their fonts. Apple intentionally chooses to display fonts the way they do. This was a bid to make all hinting technology obsolete and put everyone else to shame. For decades OS X remained a very ugly baby, until in 2015 they just gave us courage HiDPI in form of Retina. > This occurs because Apple didn’t dare go near any ClearType patents that Microsoft got for their rendering techniques. ![]() While you're not wrong that Cleartype is empirically better for most people for text content, it is objectively worse, by design, for those for whom positional precision matters. Ultimately, different strokes for different folks. This results in clearer text, but at the expense of things being slightly off as they'd appear in print. Windows makes adjustments to character positions to align them to the pixel grid. OS X displays fonts exactly as they'd appear on a page. Mac is optimized towards WYSIWYG display for desktop publishing. Mac and Windows are optimized towards different use cases. ![]()
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