Faking Subpixel Antialiasing on Text with Core Animation

Question

For anyone working on a project with Core Animation layer-backed views, it\'s unfortunately obvious that subpixel antialiasing (text smoothing) is disabled for text not rend

Answer 1

As a simple hack, if text anti-aliasing is working (but not subpixel), you can fake it by rendering to a view that is 3x as wide, then scaling down. This is nonportable as I know of no way to query the element order on your display, but it should work.

E.g.,

RGB RGB RGB -> RGB
|    |    |    |||  
|    |    +----++^
|    +---------+^
+--------------^