Comments on: Walt at Random type ugly looking? Enable ClearType http://walt.lishost.org/2009/01/walt-at-random-type-ugly-looking-enable-cleartype/ The library voice of the radical middle. Thu, 23 May 2013 16:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: laura http://walt.lishost.org/2009/01/walt-at-random-type-ugly-looking-enable-cleartype/comment-page-1/#comment-35407 laura Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:35:32 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=972#comment-35407 Oh, HUGE difference. Thanks! Everything does indeed look better.

]]> By: walt http://walt.lishost.org/2009/01/walt-at-random-type-ugly-looking-enable-cleartype/comment-page-1/#comment-35402 walt Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:27:44 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=972#comment-35402 My pleasure. Anything you do that involves print-oriented typefaces should be clearer: Word, PDF, etc.

I hadn’t thought about the fact that XP comes with ClearType disabled (and never quite understood that, although CRTs were much more common when XP came out)…and the notes about enabling it weren’t all that widely promulgated.

]]> By: George Needham http://walt.lishost.org/2009/01/walt-at-random-type-ugly-looking-enable-cleartype/comment-page-1/#comment-35400 George Needham Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:30:44 +0000 http://walt.lishost.org/?p=972#comment-35400 Thanks, Walt! What a great tip. And the blog looks so much better now.

Happy New Year!

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