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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/

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Explain it to me like I am 5. Everybody should know what this is about.

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