Why does the Prime use anti aliasing on text?

[Runer112]

(07-08-2019 04:34 PM)Joe Horn Wrote:  Pretend that you have to look at the following two screens all day, and read the fonts as displayed here. Both have unique benefits and drawbacks when compared with each other. But which one would annoy you the least at the end of a day of use?



My personal opinion is that the dithered font is slightly BOLDER than the un-dithered font whose strokes are TOO THIN for long-term comfort. I can read the dithered font at a faster glance than the un-dithered font. Yes, the un-dithered font is "cleaner"... but that doesn't make it more readable. For me. Apparently opinions differ, which is fine. Please share yours.

Here's a comparison of what it could've looked like with subpixel rendering (left). I tried my best to match the fonts, but it's not exact. Note that you must view the image at a 1:1 pixel scale on a normally-oriented screen for the subpixel rendering effect to work.