This is like the (fortunately brief) fad of ‘shabby chic’ — it's a signal that you've never had to suffer the real thing.

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VorpalWay 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Couldn't disagree more, I get headaches from blurry text, so I daily drive Terminus TTF, and have done so for years. Modern font rendering really has becole quite terrible unless you own a high DPI screen, even when using full hinting.

And no, subpixel anti-aliasing doesn't help, the colour bleeding is even worse.

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turtlebits 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Buy a modern monitor or just run your display at a low res and disable antialiasing? Phones are now 500 PPI+, theres no real excuse for using a low DPI screen.

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VorpalWay 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Income and effective cost of things like desktop monitors vary wildly across the world, that argument doesn't really fly.

	▲	ASalazarMX an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I vehemently disagree. Recently bought a pretty good and affordable 21:9 Chinese monitor, and I couldn't be happier with it. A good monitor is a basic QOL improvement for IT professionals, and these days they're still cheap because they aren't affected by the recent HDD, GPU, or RAM scarcity. For reference, I live in Mexico, and bought the monitor with less than two week's worth of groceries. Recognized brands would cost four or five times more, but there are options for every budget.