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It's the compression and it's kinda insane how different they look before and after[1][2], maybe they should disable compression for UI previews.

[1] https://images.prismic.io/blog-system76/af08494c-ad85-4e79-8... vs https://images.prismic.io/blog-system76/af08494c-ad85-4e79-8...

[2]https://images.prismic.io/blog-system76/de984d24-f265-4ebd-b... vs https://images.prismic.io/blog-system76/de984d24-f265-4ebd-b...

It's the compression. There are some pretty heavy JPEG artifacts in the screenshots.

> they need to fix that asap

Why does this urgently need to be fixed?

Good text rendering is pretty essential imo, not only for usability but also because it can make software look dated and... cheap, I guess. Sure, looks don't really matter, but for text they really do.

Huh, I usually associate poor text rendering with modern software.