MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows

Re:MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows by fallenspec on Sunday August 01, 2021 @03:12PM (#28028987)

I had listened to an interview with the original cleartype author on a podcast almost a decade ago now.

IIRC He said that when Apple got the cleartype patent (due to the Apple/Microsoft cross patent agreement that happened in the late 90s), they kinda messed up the implementation of cleartype and Windows actually implements it correctly and Mac OS X (now Mac OS) doesn't.

So I find this somewhat amusing.

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Re:MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows by seltzered_ on Sunday August 01, 2021 @06:24PM (#28030728)

You might be thinking of the interview with the late Bill Hill (2011), co-creator of ClearType : https://thisdeveloperslife.com/post/2-0-5-typo

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