Related question: is what’s happening here similar to how on old Apple computers, if you look closely at white text, you can clearly see green and purple pixels within it?
Nope. Apple used its own sub pixel rendering approach - that wasn’t ClearType. Apple emphasised fidelity of letter spacing - for layout designers - which made fonts at small size famously ‘soft’ or fuzzy. I rather liked the effect, others didn’t.
They nuked in in MacOS Mojave with the rise of Retina displays
Related question: is what’s happening here similar to how on old Apple computers, if you look closely at white text, you can clearly see green and purple pixels within it?
No - that was because of composite artifact colors, this is because of ClearType.
Nope. Apple used its own sub pixel rendering approach - that wasn’t ClearType. Apple emphasised fidelity of letter spacing - for layout designers - which made fonts at small size famously ‘soft’ or fuzzy. I rather liked the effect, others didn’t.
They nuked in in MacOS Mojave with the rise of Retina displays
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonts_on_Macintosh#Subpixel_rendering
https://www.howtogeek.com/358596/how-to-fix-blurry-fonts-on-macos-mojave-with-subpixel-antialiasing/
Exactly that. It was more pronounced Macs than Window boxes. I quite liked it