…Windows looks sharper at the expense of not actually being a very accurate representation of the text. The Mac with it’s design/DTP background is a much more accurate representation and scales more naturally than Windows which consequently jumps around a lot vertically.”

The piece includes a great example of just how true this is. It also includes this great quotes:

The issue is reminiscent of the ‘I hate black bars on wide-screen films’ brigade who believe that the film should be chopped, panned, scaled and otherwise distorted from the artists original intention simply so that it fits better on their display.”

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http://www.damieng.com/blog/archive/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosophies-of-windows-and-mac-os-x.aspx

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