How to make font rendering lighter?

[Mayae]

The CoreGraphics renderer on OS X notoriously fattens up glyphs. The solutions are IIRC:

1. use software renderer all the way to achieve consistent results.

In general, fonts look different on different rendering engines, see this comparison:

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Text rendering suggestion: Need Jules' eyes

(Don't worry Jules; this isn't about font hinting!) I've messed around with Juce's text rendering a lot, because I wasn't really satisfied with it (on Windows). It looks great on OSX, because the default renderer uses OSX's subpixel renderer - however, on Windows it uses a software antialiased approach. The problem is, that the gamma-change you introduced, while generally improving appearance, made it seem like different characters had different weights. I then decided to create a subpixel ren…