ClearText FTW

[SLCentral]

I just turned on ClearText yesterday, and at first I thought it looked worse, but after a few hours, hot damn, it looks very nice. Running on a 30" LCD, BTW.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

an afternoon cookie thread.

 

[FoBoT]

:milk;

 

[keeleysam]

That AA thing for text? I hate it, gives me a huge headache on any LCD. I like to see where each pixel is.

 

[SophalotJack]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
:milk;

cambodian

 

[Inspector Jihad]

how do you turn it on?

 

[keeleysam]

Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
how do you turn it on?

Don't ask, it'll drive you insane.

 

[ArJuN]

What exactly is this?

 

[xtknight]

ClearType is nasty compared to the libcairo subpixel font rendering. 😉

 

[FoBoT]

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306527&sd=tech

 

[TheShiz]

i tried it, ain't all it is cracked up to be

 

[DanTMWTMP]

i don't like it. the text looks a bit blurred, and I like my text to be ultra sharp.

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306527&sd=tech

Thank you. Another useless technology that I hate and am happy to have had disabled by default.

 

[Baked]

hooray e-pen +1

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

:beer: for cleartype

i think it may be 'clearer' at some resolutions and fonts and less so at others...

 

[aswedc]

I've never used a display where I can't see the color bleeding out of the text using ClearType, so I prefer the approach by OS X and Ubuntu.

 

[Phoenix86]

Originally posted by: HomeBrewerDude
:beer: for cleartype

i think it may be 'clearer' at some resolutions and fonts and less so at others...

And monitors.

 

[secretanchitman]

cleartext...i thought it was cleartype...

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: DanTMWTMP
i don't like it. the text looks a bit blurred, and I like my text to be ultra-aliased and blocky.

Fixed. 😉

 

[brtspears2]

Turning on cleartext feels like having an eye exam. I just tried it, and my eyes just started watering the moment the text changed.

 

[ultimatebob]

Wow. I almost forgot how ugly Windows fonts like Arial are without ClearText enabled. How can you folks stand looking at that?

 

[Juice Box]

just turned it on....its weird, but this just looks like LCD defaults to me *shrug* doesn't make a big difference

 

[ShadowOfMyself]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
Wow. I almost forgot how ugly Windows fonts like Arial are without ClearText enabled. How can you folks stand looking at that?

How can you stand looking at blurry fonts? 😛

 

[homercles337]

Originally posted by: acemcmac

Originally posted by: FoBoT
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;306527&sd=tech

Thank you. Another useless technology that I hate and am happy to have had disabled by default.

There is much science behind this and its FAR from useless. However, NONE of the science took place at MS, i have no clue how they can patent, or trademark, or whatever "ClearType (R)(TM)(FOO)" there are at least a handful of peerreviewed papers on this.

 

[Blazin Trav]

wtf... why is it ftw? My eyes hurt already. Must only be good for huge resolutions?