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Comment by rom-antics

It basically patches/intercepts system-wide text drawing calls, and does its own drawing instead. There are some hints how it works here https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/wiki/Secure-Boot

I played around with this back when I used Windows, maybe 5 years ago (so my opinion may be out of date). It made text look better on the laptop screen (high dpi) but worse on external monitors (low dpi). That made sense because Apple doesn't sell anything with a low dpi display, but Windows still needs to care about them, so it does a lot of extra stuff like font hinting to make rendering look good as dpi scales down.

parent rom-antics 3 years ago

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