ClearText FTW

SLCentral

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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.
 

keeleysam

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

aswedc

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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.
 

brtspears2

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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

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

Juice Box

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

ShadowOfMyself

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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? :p
 

homercles337

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Originally posted by: acemcmac

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.