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		tx on Jan 18, 2008 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Text Rendering: Why Computer Displays Suck for Rea... You got it wrong: LCDs, due to their incredible sharpness, created a need for antialiased fonts. Predating CRTs with their universal slight blurriness didn't need it, it was kind of "built into the hardware".

dcurtis on Jan 18, 2008 [–]

Huh? You can't do subpixel rendering on a CRT, so it would have been impossible to implement before LCDs.

Normal antialiasing has existed since long before LCDs.

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