Questions tagged [cleartype]
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Is there a monospaced font that have bold stand out when cleartype is turned on?
I've been facing an annoying problem for quite some years. Since Microsoft introduced the so called Cleartype tech around Vista, IE8 era. The bold display of Courier New font has been terrible. That ...
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What are all the places where ClearType can be disabled?
ClearType is a great technology. It takes us out the age of the pixel by smoothing fonts.
Then you rotate your monitor and everything is messed up.
Or you buy an exotic, non-RGB-pixels, monitor, to ...
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Smooth font rendering for Japanese characters
I am using Windows 7 and have set font smoothing to ClearType. However, Japanese characters display very roughly throughout the operating system. What can I do so they are rendered smoothly like other ...
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ClearType conditions
Is there a way to turn on ClearType (on the OS level) for the text after some threshold? For instance, "(>= 14 pt AND Bold) OR (>18 pt) OR (Font=='SomeClearTypeOptimized.ttf')". Otherwise the text ...
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How to turn off ClearType and use whole-pixel anti-aliasing in Windows 7?
In Windows XP, you can have whole-pixel anti-aliasing by setting "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts" to "Standard", or have sub-pixel anti-aliasing (for LCD ...
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Toggle ClearType (Windows 7)
Is there a tool or something which can quickly enable or disable ClearType without going through the windows 7 ClearType-configuration dialog every time?
I need this because I have to make ...
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Consolas font occasionally turns ugly, blurry after months of sharpness
I've been running Windows 7 for the past few months using the default Consolas font and in the past couple of days it seems to randomly turn ugly and blurry. Consider this from Visual Studio (I don't ...
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enable clear type and font smoothing windows xp
I need to take the screenshot of a webpage with both cleartype and font-smoothing in Windows XP. I know how to enable disable cleartype nor do I enable font smoothing.
Basically what is the ...
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Fine-grained control over font size in Windows 7
Are there any other means of configuration for the font size (and/or dpi) and Clear Type font rendering settings in Windows 7, than represented in the control panel? (Registry hacks etc. are ...
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Is ClearType enabled here?
I'm using PSPad as a code editor but I'm not sure whether ClearType is enabled. Although one may say that if I see no difference that I shouldn't make a point of it, but I'm just curious to know.
I'm ...
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Is it possible to apply cleartype tuner to Windows Server 2008 when in remote-control mode?
I want to have better font rendered when I remote to my server but trying to use Internet Explorer to do that is not working.
I've tried to switch to the lowest security level but the issue remains.
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Force cleartype fonts in Google Chrome
Firefox allows you to force webpages to use the fonts you specify by unchecking
"Allow pages to choose their own fonts instead of my selection above" in the advanced fonts settings. I use this to ...
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How to fix Windows XP's extremely sharp fonts?
I'm on a Mac, but I need to work with Visual Studio, so I run WinXP with Parallels.
Windows 7 is to heavy for my Mac Mini. Compared to Windows 7 And Mac OS X, WinXP has terrible fonts. They are ...
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How to turn off ClearType for one application only?
I'd like to leave ClearType on for most of my applications, but 1 or 2 of them really need it turned off because the characters look horribly fuzzy with it turned on. I'm using Windows 7. Is there ...
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Is it possible to disable ClearType in Internet Explorer 9 Beta
Is it possible to disable ClearType in IE9b?
I know about Options->Advanced->Multimedia->"Always use ClearType in HTML" option, but that doesn't solve my problem.
btw, besides all web sites that are ...
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Does ClearType work on a Quattron display?
Sharp has a display technology called Quattron, which utilizes a 4th, yellow subpixel. ClearType is an anti-aliasing strategy that utilizes these subpixels to make fonts look smoother. I know that ...
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Tweaks to make Cleartype better at high resolutions?
Cleartype is great when displaying small text (say 10-16px).
However when you display something above 20px it starts looking like mud.
Just compare it to Photoshop. Photoshop rendering at small size ...
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ClearType setting ignored in Windows Virtual PC with Windows XP Pro
I have a VM set up through Windows Virtual PC for Windows XP Pro and I have been completely unable to get ClearType to work.
I have turned it on in the Display -> Appearance -> Effects dialog but it ...
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How to make ClearType looks ok even with large fonts
I discovered that on large/huge fonts ClearType does have a negative impact. Just take a look at http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/ page (check title with huge fonts versus normal text). If you ...
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Text display quality in Visio 2010
I'm missing text display quality settings (esp. ClearType) under Visio 2010. Any idea how to turn on ClearType rendering?
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can't disable anti-aliasing on second monitor on Vista (Lenovo ThinkPad T500 2055)
I've got a new ThinkPad T500 2055 with Vista SP2 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650. I just extended my desktop to an external monitor, and I can't figure out how to disable font anti-aliasing on the ...
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Windows 7 cleartype fuzziness
I noticed that there are many posts on Super User about ClearType, but none seems to address the question I have.
I am on Windows 7 and I find fonts very fuzzy. To be specific, some letters are more ...
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Clear Type problem in Windows 7
I try to tune ClearType in Windows 7 x64 using the ClearType Text Tuner. I can choose whatever options I want on the first 3 pages, but on the last page, whatever I choose is reverted as soon as I ...
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Can ClearType be taught y-dir AA and reverse subpixel-order when turning the display?
Recently I bought a Dell Latitude XT2, a multitouch Tablet PC. It runs happily and fine on Windows 7 now (though lacking the Tablet buttons and the nice "Auto" mode of the tablet).
Anyway, when ...
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Can you force an app to use Cleartype?
The app we use for development (CodeWright 7) is quite old and has Cleartype turned off by default. A newer version has the option to turn on font smoothing, but I'm stuck with this version and ...
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Cleartype for S-PVA panels
I just purchased a Lenovo L220X monitor for my Windows 7 box. There is an older 17" LCD as a second monitor.
The problem is that this monitor is a S-PVA display (1900x1200) and Windows Cleartype ...
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Turning ClearType of on a 2nd monitor in Windows 7 [duplicate]
Is it possible to turn ClearType off on certain monitors in Windows 7.
ClearType degrades the crispness on the external LCD connected to my laptop. I tried tweaking it using the ClearType adjustment ...
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Are there any LCD monitors with vertically oriented RGB stripes when in portrait orientation? [closed]
It's a known issue that ClearType doesn't render text well when lcd monitors are rotated to portrait orientation. ClearType is primarily tuned for a vertically oriented RGB stripes (your average ...
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How to get Apple font rendering on Windows?
No, I am not trying to start a flame war. :-)
I understand, that this is purely matter of taste. Both Joel & Jeff have stated their opinions on the matter. I for one love the way the Mac displays ...
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Does subpixel rendering technology such as ClearType have any effect on CRT displays?
If I understood correctly, subpixel rendering was originally designed to do anti-aliasing and improve the quality of text on LCD screens. It makes use of the fact that each pixel on a color LCD is ...
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Windows 7 (DirectWrite) text-rendering comparison
Windows 7 apparently has advances in its text rendering through the new DirectWrite API. It sounds to me like DirectWrite is employing a more OS X Quartz style of text rendering; MS call it Natural ...
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