RIP Retina mac users
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Apparently the thin line in which you sign checks is made of super tiny print.
Reminds me of the insanity used to create 1024 colors from 16-color CGA. Only that had a highly predictable and extremely specific CRT behind it.
https://int10h.org/blog/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-illustrated/
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But you can’t use it visibly on a web page unless everyone has the font file installed. I suppose you could make the text the same color as the background, but then you don’t need a special illegible font.
I think the “Click the text sample that looks best to you” quiz in the ClearType Text Tuner wizard includes a sneaky human confirmation of the subpixel order.
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Nah, you don’t need it installed, it just needs to be a web font. If the font is lightweight enough, you’ll probably even avoid the Flash of Unstyled Content on a decent connection.
Of course, with as many other ways as there are to hide text on (or just off) a page using CSS, using an illegible font that leaves a blob of pixels on-screen seems like the least effective way of going about it.
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