Highly recommended XP tweak
3Mar2005 Filed under: Geek OutThis is about the coolest Windows XP upgrade ever: Smooth Windows fonts. If you’ve ever noticed the difference between how Macs render on-screen text vs. how PCs do it, this little PowerToy from Microsoft rocks. Note: it’s not just for LCD screens.
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Tumbleweed
March 3rd, 2005 at 10:19 am
Perhaps it’s just me, but I think ClearType looks _much_ worse than the regular Windows font-smoothing on CRT displays. The before and after graphic on that page you linked looks much worse _after_ ClearType. Yes, the letters have more colours to make the curves smoother, but everything looks blurry afterwards. Consistently blurry, but still blurry. I went ahead and installed it, though, since you recommended it, and went through the ‘tuner’ part of the installation, and when I was picking which fonts looked best, some of them looked really amazing, and I started getting excited.
And then I finished the installation and everything was … blurry. *shrug* I’ll stick with my non-blurry ‘crude’ text for now, and give this a shot when I upgrade to my dream of dual LCD panels.