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The UI elements I use most, such as the mouse cursor and window borders are perfectly aligned to the pixel grid.


Also if your screen isn't particularly high resolution, fonts tend to align to the pixel grid for extra sharpness.


What you describe is font hinting [0], a nice example would be the Luculent font[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_hinting [1] http://eastfarthing.com/luculent/


I don't know about yours, but my mouse cursor is not a perfectly straight 2+ pixel wide solid-colored rectangle, so that doesn't really matter. As for windows edges, I'll give you that one.

However, the edge of my window happens not to be green, so it doesn't actually align with the elements of my LCD :) I just so happen not to notice it, because my eyes don't have individual pixel resolution, almost as if there was a low-pass filter of the order > 2 lambda... Food for thought!




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