Windows ClearText

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>>58495926
I meant ClearType Text sorry

>>58495926
It's written for silly fonts from 1990 that had to hammer every curve and corner to hit the few pixels available so text would look crisp even on a shitty CRT monitor. To do this, the fonts contained hand-written "hinting" bytecode for each pixel size. Whether or not this bytecode is there still has a large effect on text in Windows. Other systems mostly just ignore it and rely on antialiasing, filtering and modern monitors not being blurry low-res shit.

There's a newer text rendering API available since Vista (I think) but few programs use that because it looks too different. And most native Windows application codebases are older than it anyways.

The Apple Macbook Pro with Retina Display doesn't have this problem.

>>58496011
I'm sorry but fonts back in 1990 are better than this piece of shit windows font now.

Every letter on my Windows 7 installation is blurry as shit with font smoothing turned on, I couldn't find a fix anywhere, anyone got a clue why its happening?

>>58496384
Perhaps not, but you also lose any advantage of switching away from Linux.

>>58496586
Is the subpixel layout set up right? Is your screen calibrated properly?
ClearType should look just fine on UI fonts made for it.

>>58496626
Whether ClearType is turned on or not doesn't make a difference. My monitor is calibrated. As for the subpixel layout I just heard it from you anon, I can't find a proper guide to set it up. Also I'm using an ATI 4870 connected to my cheap ass Phillips IPS monitor via an HDMi-to-DVI cable.

Sorry to hijack this thread, but what's a good, free, serif Asian font?

I lived enough to see Linux be more user friendly Windows, fucking hell

>>58496763
What do you want to do with it? Print it? Or have it on a display?