font color fringes on macOS, not a priority?

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

I reported this issue back in November 2018 on this very mailing list.
Desktop-consistent font selection and rendering has been consistently one
of the more problematic parts of both Swing and JavaFX, including poor
support for rendering variable San Francisco font starting with macOS
Catalina.

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 8:36 AM Rob Nikander <rob.nikander at gmail.com> wrote:

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> > On Mar 1, 2021, at 7:01 AM, John Hendrikx <hjohn at xs4all.nl> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > Have you tried to simply turn subpixel rendering off as a temporary
> solution?
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> >    System.setProperty("prism.lcdtext", "false”)
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> 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.
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