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The tiny red, green, and blue triplets quietly conspiring to fake every color you see.
means One of the individually colored sub-components inside a single screen pixel, usually a red, green, or blue stripe.
from From sub- (below, beneath) plus pixel, itself a 1960s mash-up of picture element — a part smaller than the smallest picture part.
Font trickSubpixel rendering smooths text using each color stripe separately.
Order mattersRGB or BGR layout changes how rendering looks.
Magnify itA droplet on your screen reveals the colored stripes.