font color fringes on macOS, not a priority?

[Rob Nikander]

> On Mar 1, 2021, at 7:01 AM, John Hendrikx <hjohn at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 
> Not a solution to the problem (the color fringes on Mac apparently are using almost fully saturated subpixels which seems like a serious issue), but I see color fringes on most screens so I always just turn this type of rendering off. It obviously depends on the pixel density though as higher resolution 4k+ screens make the colored fringes less obvious.
> 
> Have you tried to simply turn subpixel rendering off as a temporary solution?
> 
>    System.setProperty("prism.lcdtext", "false”)

Thanks, that helps. It stopped the color fringes on my MacBook Pro retina screen, but doesn’t cure all the font problems. The glyphs are still too close together compared to the text in native apps.