David B Darrough wrote: > Wow this must be a personal preference thing because I just ran GDI++ and it > makes my fonts look dark and fuzzy. I definitely prefer the Cleartype look. > I guess it is all what you are used to. Oddly I did notice that it worked in > IE and Firefox but not in Chrome. In Chrome, the address bar and links were > affected but not the main window.
Yes, isn't it great? :) Dark and soft... very readable. On high res screens it looks extremely good. But, yes it's definitely a matter of preference. I find the softer fonts are much easier on my eyes. The shapes of the letters are much more accurate. Cleartype reminds me of the old spindly fonts Windows used to have before the days of Truetype and anti-aliasing. As I understand it, OS X and freetype have eschewed hinting (partly because it's patented) to give a more accurate shape to the characters. Some prefer no anti-aliasing at all. Oddly enough, the fonts rendered by GDI++ are much more like OS X (which is a plus to me) than in Linux, even though it's all freetype. Does anyone know of a way to get Linux's Freetype to render more like OS X? I've already set it to no hinting, subpixel anti-aliasing. Google Chrome likely uses the font rendering engine directly in webkit, so GDI++ can't effect it. -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
