Comment by enriquto
1 day ago
> You might want to place the glyph at any position on the screen, not necessarily aligned with the pixel grid
No. I don't. This is a horrifying concept. It implies that the same character may look different every time is printed! This is extremely noticeable and really awful. For example when you align equal signs on consecutive lines of code, you notice straight away whether the characters are different.
Nowadays pixels are so small that I don't understand why don't we all just use good quality bitmap fonts. I do, and couldn't be happier with them. They are crisp to a fault, and their correct rendering does not depend on the gamma of the display (which is a serious problem that TFA does not even get into).
I mean, there's literally an example animation in the post. Maybe you don't want subpixel positioning in long texts, but you absolutely need it whenever you need animated transitions or animation in general.