Why does the 1px pixel grid look like wavy bands instead of solid grey?

You are not running at the panel native resolution, your OS scaling is set to a fractional value (125% or 150%), or your browser zoom is not 100%. Each of those breaks the 1:1 mapping between drawn pixels and physical pixels, which is why the grid moires. Set browser zoom to 100% (Ctrl+0), use a round OS scaling value (100% or 200%), and confirm you are at native resolution.

What is the correct "Sharpness" setting on my monitor?

Neutral. Most monitors have a 0-100 sharpness slider where 0 or 5 is the neutral pass-through value and anything higher applies edge enhancement that creates halos around text. Use this test to find the value where the 1px checker patterns look uniform mid-grey at arm length and text edges have no halo - that is neutral.

Why do I see red and blue halos around text on my OLED monitor?

OLEDs often use a non-standard sub-pixel layout (PenTile, RWBG, or QD-OLED triangular) instead of the RGB stripe LCDs use. Sub-pixel font anti-aliasing (ClearType on Windows, sub-pixel rendering on Linux) is tuned for RGB stripe and produces visible color fringing on these panels. The fix is to disable sub-pixel rendering and use grayscale anti-aliasing only - macOS does this automatically on Retina, Windows requires re-tuning ClearType.

Does this replace the Lagom LCD sharpness test?

It serves the same purpose. Lagom is a static image with a single sharpness pattern; this tool draws the patterns dynamically at your device pixel ratio so they remain pixel-perfect on HiDPI displays where a static image would be upscaled. It also adds multi-size text samples, color fringing blocks, and a sub-pixel ruler that the original Lagom page does not include.

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Rendert ein 1-px-Pixelraster im Lagom-Stil, Textproben in Serif, Sans und Monospace, Farbsaum-Bloecke und ein RGB-Subpixel-Lineal zur Beurteilung der Bildschirmschaerfe.

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Lagom-style sharpness patterns

Each block is a 1px alternating black/white grid drawn at the device pixel ratio. On a correctly-scaled monitor with neutral sharpness, every block should look like a uniform mid-grey at arm's length. Visible banding, moire, or shimmer means OS scaling, monitor over-sharpening, or a non-native resolution is interfering with pixel-perfect rendering.

Text clarity at 8 sizes × 3 fonts

Read each block. Small text should remain crisp, not fuzzy. The same paragraph is rendered in serif, sans, and monospace at 12-64 px so you can compare hinting, stem thickness, and grayscale anti-aliasing.

Color fringing detection

Look at the edges of each character. If you see thin red, green, or blue halos along letter strokes, that is chromatic aberration from sub-pixel anti-aliasing on a non-RGB-stripe panel (e.g. RWBG, BGR, OLED PenTile). Black-on-white and white-on-black often render with different sub-pixel hinting.

16px black on white

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789

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16px white on black

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. 0123456789

Sharpness

Aa Bb 0123

Sub-pixel layout ruler

A 1px wide repeating pattern of pure red, green, blue, and black columns. Lean in close (or use a phone camera macro). On a standard RGB-stripe LCD you should see a clean R-G-B-K stripe; on a BGR panel the order reverses; OLEDs with PenTile arrangement will look mottled. This tells you the pixel layout your monitor uses for sub-pixel anti-aliasing.

Denser RGB+black:

Solid R/G/B reference (helps identify a stuck pixel within a column):

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