Why do people use cleartype?

[Rubycon]

It makes things look blurry to me.

Now the fonts do appear to have a better style, almost if there's a partial serif tacked on.

What's horrible is most dialog boxes don't show the effect so you see the pixel fonts in those. Chromic distortion that looks a lot like a CRT with a convergence problem. Some backgrounds/pages will reveal it badly.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

You suck at the ClearType configuration tool.

 

[FrustratedUser]

ClearType is teh $uck! Text looks just like a badly calibrated CRT, which I hate more than anything.
I like my text crisp and sharp like a razor.


<--- LCD owner.

 

[TallBill]

Dont even know wtf cleartype is.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

ClearType is awesome. I'm on a CRT.

 

[igowerf]

It looks a lot better on an LCD to me. No aliasing makes the text look very pixelated and sometimes hard to read. I think that the aliasing shows even in dialog boxes for me. I'll have to double check when I get home. I'm on a CRT at work right now.

I remember a while ago, I had some weird problem with clear-type where every character seem to have a yellow shadow on it. I think something happened with my drivers, but a system restore fixed it.

 

[CKent]

Makes text look far clearer on my LCD, might be specific to certain models or dot pitches?

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: C6FT7
It makes things look blurry to me.

Now the fonts do appear to have a better style, almost if there's a partial serif tacked on.

What's horrible is most dialog boxes don't show the effect so you see the pixel fonts in those. Chromic distortion that looks a lot like a CRT with a convergence problem. Some backgrounds/pages will reveal it badly.

Are you using CT w/ a CRT C6FT7? 😕

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Nik
You suck at the ClearType configuration tool.

Been there, done that. It does nothing to deal with the aforementioned shortcomings. It's just the limitation of the glyph antialiasing function I suppose.

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Are you using CT w/ a CRT C6FT7? 😕

No, a crappy Dell TFT (2405).

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Makes text look worse on my 1905FP

 

[Anubis]

no idea it makes it look like ass

 

[Kroz]

I think cleartype makes for blurry fonts too, no matter how much I tweak the settings.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: C6FT7

Originally posted by: Nik
You suck at the ClearType configuration tool.

Been there, done that. It does nothing to deal with the aforementioned shortcomings. It's just the limitation of the glyph antialiasing function I suppose.

Then turn it off and quit bitching about it. :roll:

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Anubis
no idea it makes it look like ass

Good or bad a*s Anubis? 😛

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: Nik

Then turn it off and quit bitching about it. :roll:

No because the font style changes that is desirable. If the font style could be retained without the aforementioned idiosyncrasies of cleartype all would be well.

It's an artise thing, you may not understand. 😉

 

[BrokenVisage]

ClearType works for me!

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: C6FT7

Originally posted by: Nik

Then turn it off and quit bitching about it. :roll:

No because the font style changes that is desirable. If the font style could be retained without the aforementioned idiosyncrasies of cleartype all would be well.

It's an artise thing, you may not understand. 😉

e-fight! 😛

<-- Sits in a lawnchair w/ a cold :beer:

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Zim Hosein

Originally posted by: C6FT7

Originally posted by: Nik

Then turn it off and quit bitching about it. :roll:

No because the font style changes that is desirable. If the font style could be retained without the aforementioned idiosyncrasies of cleartype all would be well.

It's an artise thing, you may not understand. 😉

e-fight! 😛

<-- Sits in a lawnchair w/ a cold :beer:

<-- Joins!
Hey Zim, throw me a :beer: will ya!?

 

[Kroz]

Although, cleartype is way improved in Vista Beta's. So I will probably use it in vista.

 

[kalster]

wrong forum

 

[Steve]

ClearType makes text look waaay better on my 2405, IMO.

 

[wfbberzerker]

on my crt (samsung 955df) i hate it, looks blurr. looks good on my laptops lcd, though.

 

[dethman]

cleartype makes text looks like ass. who would want to intentionally blur their text??? 😕

 

[her209]

ClearType is AWESOME!

 

[secretanchitman]

CRT - no cleartype
LCD - YES cleartype

if you have an nvidia card and you use the forceware drivers, theres a "display optimization wizard" in the nvidia driver settings. run that and if you have an lcd with auto-adjust, run that when it says to. it'll look much nicer.