> As you know, if you want to get subpixel rendering and decent
> anti-aliasing at all point sizes, you have to turn on Cleartype which
> has a strange idea of how to hint the letters to ostensibly make the
> font crisper and more readable.  Instead it just makes the letters look
> funny.  I guess the silver lining is that if you can't tell in a
> screenshot if you're looking at KDE or Windows, the fonts are the
> giveaway.

Have you tried the built-in cleartype tuner to adjust cleartype for your
display? It is found in the Control Panel in Windows 7 or you can go to this
address to download and run it.

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearType/Tuner/Step1.aspx

Dave Darrough

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