Comment by RedNifre
21 hours ago
Could somebody explain the Coral Pixel font? It makes no sense to me, given that the whole point of sub pixels was to look sharp without looking colorful. It only ever looked like that when you took a screenshot and then zoomed in, which seems extremely niche.
All technology, no matter how undesirable it once felt, eventually becomes nostalgic for somebody.
Depends on the DPI of your monitor and your glasses prescription.
Oooh, you mean people turned on sub pixel rendering while running their screen at a non-native resolution and thus got these colors all the time? Yeah, I guess that could cause nostalgia.
Thanks!
> the whole point of sub pixels was to look sharp without looking colorful
That was the point, but it never worked: in practice, at least for me, text was smeary and colorful in that era. I wouldn’t want to use Coral Pixel, but I can imagine someone else being nostalgic for it.