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		rhdunn on Feb 14, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Text Rendering Hates You (2019) Which is why the greyscale should be done with an alpha channel, so it correctly blends with the background, and supports coloured text.

steerablesafe on Feb 14, 2022 [–]

That would be fine, if alpha blending was handled gamma-correctly in most software, but it isn't. Things go worse with alpha and subpixel-AA, that is just cursed.

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