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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

> On 11 Feb 2019, at 16:49, Tomasz Wlostowski <tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 11/02/2019 02:12, Jeff Young wrote:
>> This hugely improves Fallback on Mac.  Still doesn’t look as good as OpenGL (or Legacy), but it’s at least usable.
> 
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> I don't see any difference between the look of Fallback mode on your
> screenshots vs my machine. Are you referring to the text rendering? If
> so, it's our stroke font to blame (JP explained it), at low
> scales/resolutions you need font hinting...
> 

Those screenshots were all made with your patches installed.  Before them the line-widths in Fallback on Mac were all over the place and sometimes bloated to double-width.  I attributed it to lack of Retina display support, but I don’t know if that’s actually the case or not.