Comment by tuna74
1 day ago
To all people that want sub-pixel rendering: Unless you know the sub-pixel grid on the display it is going to look worse. Therefore the only good UX that you can do is to ask the user for every display they use if they want to turn it on for that specific display. The OS also have to handle rotations etc as well.
Even better would be as the author suggests: having a way for the display to indicate its subpixel structure to the system.
I always think about the Samsung SyncMaster 173P I used to have once. It was good for its time, but not usable with any kind of subpixel antialiasing (even on Gnome which allowed to you to choose between horizontal and vertical RGB and BGR): the subpixel grid on it was diagonal. Absolutely tractable as far as the signal-processing math, yet would be unlikely to fit in any reasonable protocol.
There is, but displays do not send out correct information unfortunately.
Well it is a style of text you could use to emphasize certain words, which for most people translates to a different pronounciation of said word in their heads.