[HN Gopher] Subpixel Text Encoding
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       Subpixel Text Encoding
        
       Author : picture
       Score  : 18 points
       Date   : 2023-07-23 19:47 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | Microsoft jumped into this with both feet in the early days of
       | sRGB and LED monitors and used this idea to improve text
       | rendering in Windows (not as such radically small sizes!), but
       | before long it wasn't so predictable exactly what the pixel
       | layout is and with denser pixel layouts the tradeoff between
       | slightly better pixel resolution and color noise broke
       | differently.
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       | I absolutely adore anything about taking advantages of fine
       | details in visual technology to get out that last few percent of
       | performance or to encode or discover things hidden in plain site,
       | that's a major motivation of my crafting hobby.
        
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