[nimd4]

ripken204, on 15 July 2009 - 01:06 AM, said:

and i have 24" lcds. even on my 1680x1050 15.4" laptop screen it looks horrible.

Windows 7, Benq E2200HD D-SUB & it's good, perfect. They didn't have the monitor w/the digital out and I was concerned; but it still turned out 0k. ClearType, FTW.

[MagicAndre1981]

I love ClearType. I'm using it since 2001. I can't live without it.

[Tripredacus]

I'm not sure I even know what it is.

[MagicAndre1981]

ClearType is the font smoothing technology from MS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType

[Tripredacus]

MagicAndre1981, on 22 April 2010 - 10:03 AM, said:

ClearType is the font smoothing technology from MS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType

oic... I've been using this for years, even before XP. Its also known as text anti-aliasing, for anyone who uses any graphic programs.

[JustShootIt]

DigeratiPrime, on 14 July 2009 - 09:40 PM, said:

I like it enabled on LCD displays, but not on CRT monitors.

True. ClearType is intended only for LCD anyway, which is what they assume (correctly) most people have now.

[Svenne]

I have Cleartype turned on for LCD monitors, and off for CRTs. Most people who thinks it looks blurry on LCDs might have it improperly configured; some monitors have the pixels in the opposite order eg. Blue-Green-Red instead of the normal Red-Green-Blue.

[dbanie]

yes i prefer cleartype for me it makes the text its easier to read

[meowing]

As I wrote earlier: Cleartype is post-processing of fonts that aren't good to begin with (or they wouldn't require cleartype). It's not something you should rely on, as it is not a reliable standard.

Font smoothing is ugly blurring in my eyes. Cleartype never does it the way it should be done, or I prefer hard lines over soft edges. Also, NOT being able to see where it goes wrong in fonts would be my preference over software regulated changes in displaying them.

[Ex_Brit]

meowing, on 21 December 2010 - 04:30 AM, said:

As I wrote earlier: Cleartype is post-processing of fonts that aren't good to begin with (or they wouldn't require cleartype). It's not something you should rely on, as it is not a reliable standard.

Font smoothing is ugly blurring in my eyes. Cleartype never does it the way it should be done, or I prefer hard lines over soft edges. Also, NOT being able to see where it goes wrong in fonts would be my preference over software regulated changes in displaying them.

Whatever needs improving I couldn't do without Cleartype on my Samsung XL2370.

[CoffeeFiend]

meowing, on 21 December 2010 - 04:30 AM, said:

Cleartype is post-processing of fonts that aren't good to begin with (or they wouldn't require cleartype)

Utter nonsense. Perhaps you don't understand how anti-aliasing works, or how LCD's sub-pixels make up their pixels (rather different than CRTs). What you're saying is 100% the same as saying "this line at a 45 degree angle only needs anti-aliasing because it's badly designed". It simply doesn't work that way.

It makes use of the subpixels to anti-alias fonts FAR better than the old grayscale method which could only do anti-aliasing at the pixel level (more precise/sharper -- and actually a better representation of the font's bezier curves). That alone is quite nice, but the other thing I personally appreciate quite a bit (as a typography lover/geek) is the much improved spacing between characters (far more precise kerning) as you're not forced to stick to actual pixel boundaries for placement (3x more precise, aligning to sub-pixels) which looks fantastic IMO.

meowing, on 21 December 2010 - 04:30 AM, said:

It's not something you should rely on, as it is not a reliable standard

It's not what we would call a standard in the first place But it does consistently looks great IMO. And the big name foundries (like Adobe) are also behind those technologies and some even have their own implementation of it (e.g. Adobe's CoolType). You'd think they know a thing or two about type Even Microsoft is quite knowledgeable about fonts in general -- they even designed the OpenType format (the "new" standard) with Adobe and they have came up with several nice fonts over the years too (calibri, candara, segoe, verdana, cambria, trebuchet, etc)