[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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