OS Font Rendering

This is minor, but fonts also have sub-pixel rendering.

Aside from the font you chooce, make sure to have ClearType on with Windows or Anti-aliasing on with OS X :)

If you would read the update to the article that those images are from, you would see that the differences are due to OS X and Windows using the same information differently. Neither one completely ignores any of the hinting or sub-pixel information. The Windows font renderer is optimized to improve Microsoft's idea of readability on moderate-resolution displays. The OS X font renderer is designed to preserve the look of a font more, so that your screen is a more accurate reflection of how it wo

You might want to check your antialiasing settings (in Preferences -> Fonts I think). You can choose different levels of antialiasing, and if you're using an LCD monitor, you'll want to use sub-pixel rendering, which is equivalent to Microsoft's ClearType.It would be nice if that could be automatically turned on based on your monitor type.

There are 2 issues on Apple:1) How much font hinting to apply. More hinting changes the shape to make glyphs line up better with pixels so that less antialiasing is required. macOS prefers very light hinting to preserve shapes at the cost of blurriness. This is what you are talking about.2) Subpixel rendering. This effectively triples the horizontal resolution when rendering fonts, and does not affect the shape at all. Fonts look dramatically better on normal dpi displays when using it. ma

It's not, the font renderer just sucks outside of high-DPI displays.

Doesn't look like that on Mac. Seems like a bad case of disabled ClearType, aka subpixel anti-aliasing. Dunno if the font also contributes to that.

I suspect the issue may be down to however your computer, which I'm guessing is running Windows, is rasterising the font. On Mac OS, it renders perfectly, whether on a Retina display or a normal monitor. Ditto for Ubuntu.It looks like ClearType is making certain elements of the typeface finer and lighter. You might want to tune your ClearType settings.

It could just be macOs's staggeringly bad text rendering on low dpi displays.I believe that subpixel font rendering being removed several years ago is the cause.

Yeah, no. Mac font rendering is blurry, Windows font rendering is pixelated or okay with the right ClearType settings, FreeType with slight hinting and subpixel rendering (lcdfilter) is between these two and really fine IMO.