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POLL: Cleartype??

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butch84

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yes or no? What do you guys think? I personally like it quite a bit. And i hope this is the right forum - i could have put it in off topic, but it does have to do with winxp. Oh well, if i was wrong, mods feel free to move it!!

Cheers,
butch
 
I think it makes the text look thicker, blurry, and 3D-ish.

Desktop - No
Notebook - Yes
Pocket PC - Yes
 
I don't like it. No Cleartype, I think it is over-hyped. Text is not jagged on the panel without it.

Compaq Laptop WinXP Cleartype - no
Compaq Laptop Linux - Anti-alias - no
 
For the day or so I ran Win2K3 on my laptop, I gave cleartype a try. Sometimes there is a red blotch or 2 visible around some letters, but for the most part it looks great. Too bad there's no implementation of it on *NIX systems yet...

(Yes, I know freetype2 supports it, but I've yet to see an application that makes use of it)
 
Originally posted by: Electrode
For the day or so I ran Win2K3 on my laptop, I gave cleartype a try. Sometimes there is a red blotch or 2 visible around some letters, but for the most part it looks great. Too bad there's no implementation of it on *NIX systems yet...

(Yes, I know freetype2 supports it, but I've yet to see an application that makes use of it)
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Have you ever used XFT? All GTK2 applications support it, fluxbox, openbox, mozilla, phoenix, etc all support it too. I think it looks ALOT better than cleartype...not as blurry, but still very effective.
 
Originally posted by: Vortex
Originally posted by: Electrode
For the day or so I ran Win2K3 on my laptop, I gave cleartype a try. Sometimes there is a red blotch or 2 visible around some letters, but for the most part it looks great. Too bad there's no implementation of it on *NIX systems yet...

(Yes, I know freetype2 supports it, but I've yet to see an application that makes use of it)
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Have you ever used XFT? All GTK2 applications support it, fluxbox, openbox, mozilla, phoenix, etc all support it too. I think it looks ALOT better than cleartype...not as blurry, but still very effective.
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The lesser the bluriness the better. Xft makes text on my debian box a lot easier on the eyes.
 
Originally posted by: Spyro
Originally posted by: Vortex
Originally posted by: Electrode
For the day or so I ran Win2K3 on my laptop, I gave cleartype a try. Sometimes there is a red blotch or 2 visible around some letters, but for the most part it looks great. Too bad there's no implementation of it on *NIX systems yet...

(Yes, I know freetype2 supports it, but I've yet to see an application that makes use of it)
Click to expand...

Have you ever used XFT? All GTK2 applications support it, fluxbox, openbox, mozilla, phoenix, etc all support it too. I think it looks ALOT better than cleartype...not as blurry, but still very effective.
Click to expand...

The lesser the bluriness the better. Xft makes text on my debian box a lot easier on the eyes.
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Hehe, thats what I meant. Xft > *
 
Most of you know this but I would like to clarify for those who don?t, Clear-Type is sub-pixel anti-aliasing for LCD displays. If you are using a CRT Clear-Type may ?just look blurry? because it?s not able to manipulate the pixels the same way (in reality it?s not designed for use on CRTs at all).

Unless you?ve seen and used it on an LCD than you really haven?t seen the advantage to it.

-Spy
 
Most of you know this but I would like to clarify for those who don?t, Clear-Type is sub-pixel anti-aliasing for LCD displays. If you are using a CRT Clear-Type may ?just look blurry? because it?s not able to manipulate the pixels the same way (in reality it?s not designed for use on CRTs at all).

Unless you?ve seen and used it on an LCD than you really haven?t seen the advantage to it.
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I used it on my notebook which most definately doesn't have a CRT display, and I still say it's just blurry.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Most of you know this but I would like to clarify for those who don?t, Clear-Type is sub-pixel anti-aliasing for LCD displays. If you are using a CRT Clear-Type may ?just look blurry? because it?s not able to manipulate the pixels the same way (in reality it?s not designed for use on CRTs at all).

Unless you?ve seen and used it on an LCD than you really haven?t seen the advantage to it.
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I used it on my notebook which most definately doesn't have a CRT display, and I still say it's just blurry.
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That's just your eyes Nothinman, I cant help you with that 😀

-Spy
 
I've given ClearType a try on the three LCD's I've gone through in the past 2 years, and I really don't like it. Yes, it makes the letters "curvy" but to me it doesn't look giid. I prefer the defined lines that are there without cleartype. I also hate how if I highlight something when cleartype is enabled, the edge of the font turns the color of the aliased sub-pixel. I like my text normal, and not anti-aliased.
 
Originally posted by: Nothinman
Most of you know this but I would like to clarify for those who don?t, Clear-Type is sub-pixel anti-aliasing for LCD displays. If you are using a CRT Clear-Type may ?just look blurry? because it?s not able to manipulate the pixels the same way (in reality it?s not designed for use on CRTs at all).

Unless you?ve seen and used it on an LCD than you really haven?t seen the advantage to it.
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I used it on my notebook which most definately doesn't have a CRT display, and I still say it's just blurry.
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I've used it on mine and I've noticed a great amount of difference, but then I do remember you posting something about not really caring about fonts.......
 
I've used it on mine and I've noticed a great amount of difference, but then I do remember you posting something about not really caring about fonts.......
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I care to a certain extent, I care enough to get ttf and the msttcorefonts installed.
 
I've tried it on a few systems, but only on one desktop did it look good. That was on a CRT, too. Something about the video card, maybe? Never liked it on any other desktop or on my notebook, which surprised me.

But for that matter, I'm not sure I particularly like XFT either. Like, when I first booted up the RH desktop, I was really impressed. But after a long time at the machine, it seems harder on my eyes than just using Arial and other TT fonts on non-XFT systems.
 
Without ClearType, text looks crappy on my Dell 1800FP.....so yeah i like those curves, can't live without 🙂
 
I just tried cleartype and it's horrible. Everything is blurry on my Dell 1800FP. I bet that video cards have a lot to do with how well cleartype works. I was using a ATI Radeon card in Win2K and the text seemed to thin. The added weight to the text from cleartype would've probably made it nice. Now that I'm using a machine with WinXP, I'm also using an Nvidia GF4 card and the text is noticeably not as sharp as the Radeon. With the GF card in XP, the text is fat enough to read clearly. Now, with the cleartype, it's too fat and blurry. Too bad that I can't get cleartype on my Win2k machine.

Sal
 
On my CRT, it has a blurry look. It looks to me as if BOLD was selected. I know it is supposed to be for LCD's but I see articles that claim it's also good for CRTs. IMO, the standard font smoothing looks better.
 
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