ClearText FTW

[feelingshorter]

Its ClearType on my computer. I dont like cleartype as it fuzzes the image. It looks much better seeing the image pixel for pixel on an LCD IMO.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

im going blind!@

 

[Raduque]

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

:thumbsup:

It also smears BAD on my lcd when cleartype is on

 

[Ika]

jaggy, sharp pixels > smeared, fuzzed up pixels

IMO

 

[imported_FishTaco]

Not only does it look blurry, I also notice the color bleed. No thanks, I'll stick with sharp jaggy fonts.

 

[Elderly Newt]

Cleartype is great on on my 1680x1050, 15.4" LCD.
On my 1280x960 19" CRT, theres absolutely no way i could use it with cleartype on.

I guess it depends on your monitor. For my LCD, it has the effect of smoothing the fonts out and making them bolder. It's great.

 

[PingSpike]

I don't really have a problem reading my text so I can't see how this could possibly improve things.

I probably need glasses now though, getting those might improve things.

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: 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? 😛

Font ain't blurry. It's shaded by the individual R/G/B pixels in the screen. Comes out looking quite good.

The only problem I really have with it is that it won't do it for most non-standard fonts. All they really need to do is just take the larger font size and resample down with the R/G/B shading stuff enabled. Plenty of linux builds do it.

 

[paulney]

Oh god. I just tried it.
How can you live with that?

 

[yukichigai]

Originally posted by: paulney
Oh god. I just tried it.
How can you live with that?

One, you need an LCD. It looks like crap on CRTs.

Two, your LCD needs to be at native resolution and only native resoltuion. Otherwise it'll, again, look like crap.

 

[hjo3]

One can only assume the jerks saying ClearType sucks are using inferior displays.

 

[ultimatebob]

I will say this, though... The font smoothing on Mac OS X is better than ClearType.