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The sad state of font rendering on Linux (2018)

harporoeder

created: July 25, 2025, 5:14 p.m. | updated: July 25, 2025, 7:52 p.m.

If you don’t see anything wrong with Linux font rendering, please disregard this as a shitpost. I spent the first 25 years of my life on Windows and therefore I am biased towards Windows font rendering with ClearType. Most notable are sub-pixel rendering, sub-pixel positioning, font hinting and anti-aliasing. Windows font rendering keeps changing with every new version of the OS. OS X implementationOS X has the absolute worst font rendering from the readability aspect.

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