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Eirik Bakke commented on NETBEANS-6358:
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I submitted an OpenJDK bug report for this ("Segoe UI font renders too heavy
when ClearType is disabled"). I'll post the OpenJDK JIRA ticket URL once it
goes through the review.
Meanwhile, if you'd like, I could add code to the Windows LAF to revert to
Tahoma 11 when ClearType is disabled, if you think this is a good workaround.
> Font style regression: badly readable font style
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>
> Key: NETBEANS-6358
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-6358
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: editor - Navigation, ide - UI, java - Navigation
> Affects Versions: 12.6
> Environment: NB 12.6
> Win10
> Reporter: S. M.
> Assignee: Eirik Bakke
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: ClearType Tahoma vs. Segoe.png, NetBeans 12.6 Project
> Font on Windows 11.png, bold.png, regular.png
>
>
> The font style changed in 12.6 in a way that makes it less readable. The
> following fonts are bold now:
> - The name of the source files in the source-code-tab
> - The project names in the projects windows (and all its child nodes)
> This bulky use of bold fonts makes the text badly readable. Please use a
> regular font instead! The source-code names in the source-window-tab used to
> be bold only when the file had unsaved changes, which seems to be a good
> thing to me.
> It might seem to be a 'minor' problem, but the font as part of the
> ergonomically usability is quite important.
> Thanks a lot!
> Here the comparison:
> Bulky and badly readable: New bold style
> !bold.png!
> Clear and readable: Old regular style
> !regular.png!
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