Wow, I completely forgot Apple got rid of subpixel text antialiasing, even on non-retina displays. Many years ago, too.
Marcin Wichary
Writing about software craft and quality: https://unsung.aresluna.org / Wrote a book about the history of keyboards: https://shifthappens.site / Designer / Typographer / Occasional speaker / Chicagoan in training
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I wrote recently about some keyboard symbols that were lost to time! The first part has the PC side, and the absolutely beautiful, proofreading-inspired symbols for Insert, Delete, and other things:
https://unsung.aresluna.org/key-symbols-we-lost-to-time-pt-1-the-pc-side/
I wrote a bit about Zalgo, the glitchy text you sometimes see. I wanted to explain not what it is in the meme/lore sense, but how it is constructed, and why is it even possible to construct it.
https://unsung.aresluna.org/zalgo-the-good-the-bad-and-the-very-very-ugly/
unsung.aresluna.org/zalgo-the-good-the-bad-and-the-very-very-ugly/