I have a grid with this template and styles in WPF/XAML: <Setter Property="TextOptions.TextFormattingMode" Value="Display" /> <Setter Property="RenderOptions.ClearTypeHint" Value="Enabled...

I need to enable/disable ClearType (or "Adjust the appearance and performance of Windows > Smooth edges of screen fonts") via cmd (or any script like VBS/JS) or from the registry witho...

(There are several similar question, but no answer worked) I started experimenting with JavaFX (JDK8) and first thing I noticed is a horrible font smoothing. I'm using Windows 8.1 and disabling fo...

This is how the .ttf font is rendered: I have created this vector-only TrueType font using FontForge. I want to use this font on applications which require vector-based glyphs, and do not suppo...

I guess I've just gotten spoiled with Consolas working on my local development machine. But at work we do a lot of development remotely via Remote Desktop, where any fonts requiring ClearType look ...

What exactly is it that makes GDI+ switch to binary aliasing when using default Microsoft Office font Calibri between 9pt and 14pt with ClearTypeGridFit specified? It's somewhat disconcerting. How...

EDIT: We're in Chrome 19 now, and this still isn't fixed. Just a clarification: this happens in Chrome on Windows, not Linux or Mac. I think it has to do with Cleartype. Google, please fix this. ...

First some background information. It seems that using the CSS3 @font-face rule can interact in unexpected and undesired ways with ClearType font renderingv in any browser, on any version of Windo...

It's well documented (e.g. here) that IE9 ignores the OS-wide settings for font smoothing (aka anti-aliasing). Even if font-smoothing and ClearType are disabled in Windows, IE still shows anti-alia...

For IE7, it's possible to add filter: none; to the body css to disable cleartype on fonts through CSS. I don't like the fuzzy look it gives, and it isn't really consistent across browsers. IE; ...

[Original title: IE 9 text renders very poorly; is there a workaround?) IE 9 is rendering the text in my application very poorly. The problem is not in my monitor's Clear Type settings, since IE 9...

Does WinRT provides an option to fall back to software ClearType font rendering (as Direct2D do via "Direct2D and GDI Interoperability") or we will be stuck with somewhat blurry hardware font anti-...

I'm experiencing something really strange! I have a div that I'm hiding with JS (jQuery). Like this: $('#myDiv').hide(); Then when I make a fadeIn like this: $("#myDiv").fadeIn('slow'); then...

I've read at length about issues with IE disabling ClearType when using filters, and I'm hoping that my conclusions are wrong. It seems that it is impossible to turn ClearType back on after applyin...

I use font-family: Myriad; font-size: 40px for some text. I can't believe IE displays the font in the best quality! Much better than Opera, Firefox and Chrome. How can it be? How can I make text ...

Sub-pixel font rendering like ClearType dramatically improves font display resolution and improves screen readability. How would I program sub-pixel rendering of a font (in general), and how can th...

So the new WPF 4 text rendering looks great, but enabling the aero glass effect on a window requires that you change the background to transparent, which of course disables ClearType rendering. Us...

Using GDI+ to draw text on glass: graphics.DrawString(s, Length(s), font, MakePointF(x, y), brush); You'll notice that the ClearType enabled text draws very poorly on glass: But with glass di...

I'm using a third party library to render an image to a GDI DC and I need to ensure that any text is rendered without any smoothing/antialiasing so that I can convert the image to a predefined pale...

I'm using Graphics32 library in Delphi 2009. Is it possible to render a font using TBitmap32.TextOut method with MS' ClearType technology? I'm aware about GR32's built-in antialiasing (TBitma...