cleartype

I just got VS 2010 beta 1, but the text in the text editor is thin, ie not anti aliased, smoothed or cleartyped. It's hard to read. Is there a setting to adjust it, similar to the one in the OS. This is a known issue with the beta. See the readme . Section 2.4.2.2 "Text may appear slighly blurry". They are working on a fix and recommend you stick with Consolas font for English, for now. This will be fixed in Beta 2 once WPF integrates with the DirectWrite code in the latest versions of DirectX. To workaround this, we decided to override the OS Setting and always for ClearType smoothing to be

EDIT: We're in Chrome 19 now, and this still isn't fixed. Just a clarification: this happens in Chrome on Windows, not Linux or Mac. I think it has to do with Cleartype. Google, please fix this. I've been using CSS3 text-shadow to emulate IE9's font smoothing on other browsers. Basically I've just set the text-shadow of a container's text to the container's background. You can see the behavior by setting text-shadow on a largish font element in anything lower than Chrome 14.0.833. The text looks smooth. Remove the text-shadow and the font looks jagged. However, in Chrome 14.0.833 (UPDATE:

I use font-family: Myriad; font-size: 40px for some text. I can't believe IE displays the font in the best quality! Much better than Opera, Firefox and Chrome. How can it be? How can I make text look as good in other browsers as in IE? Here is a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/55Ruh/3/ Try this link in all browsers. IE (the newest version, 9) shows the best and most quality text, doesn't it? Simply put: this is because IE9 introduces a new font rendering engine that is based largely on that seen in WPF's ClearType implementation . Its enhanced engine does a better job at reducing jagged edges,

Using GDI+ to draw text on glass: graphics.DrawString(s, Length(s), font, MakePointF(x, y), brush); You'll notice that the ClearType enabled text draws very poorly on glass: But with glass disabled the text, of course, draw fine: By way of comparison here is Anti-alias font smoothing : And here is no font smoothing : Note : No font smoothing looks better than it really does because StackOverflow resizes the images on your monitor. How do i draw ClearType text on glass? Notes Win32 native not .NET ( i.e. native) not Winforms ( i.e. native) GDI+ ( i.e. native) What Mark is suggesting is that you

It's well documented (e.g. here ) that IE9 ignores the OS-wide settings for font smoothing (aka anti-aliasing). Even if font-smoothing and ClearType are disabled in Windows, IE still shows anti-aliased fonts, which some users struggle to read, especially at small font sizes. How can I disable all font anti-aliasing (ClearType or otherwise) in IE9? More details: Our company builds a web application which uses a lot of small fonts. With the release of IE9, some of our users have complained that IE9's default anti-aliasing makes our small fonts fuzzy or blurry. So we need to help our users who've

I have this little script to toggle a contact form when a button is clicked : $(document).ready(function(){ $("#button").click(function () { $("#form").toggle("slow"); }); }); All is working OK in Firefox, but in IE it seems like the toggle's fade-in effect doesn't gets 100% complete, and the text is being 'frozen' somewhere before a complete render, loosing all its fine resolution. I read this topic but I don't know exactly how to apply it to my issue. Thanks for any help. This may be what you're looking for. Also, there is a functional demo of another similar method available online.: //----