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I think it's possible that people perceive sub pixellated fonts to be uglier in some cases, but I know early on Microsoft aggressively marketed the studies they'd done that reading speed and comprehension were definitely superior. Not sure if that research has been replicated recently.

> Sub pixel rendering, which they all had (Likely a Windows default at the time?) sounds good but just looks blurry in practice.

It adds some funny color artifacts when the capture is not perfectly aligned to the screen because subpixel information is encoded as color variations.

Yeah, I often hear about how much better font rendering is on windows and MacOS but I actually find them to be inferior to the clean font rendering I have on linux; blurry red & blue around my text is really not the definition of beautiful text to me, but I suppose this is about taste..