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Font rendering was improved in the Anniversary update. It should use ClearType in most cases on landscape monitors with 100% DPI.

0xFFC 10y ago
This is not true ! UWP (which most of the internal app are porting into it), does use DirectWrite and there is no way to change its font rendering engine to ClearType.
- becarefulyo 10y ago
  I think you're right, looks like it was only fixed for Edge. Discussion of technical challenge is here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150129-00/?p=44803 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150129-00/?p=...
  - 0xFFC 10y ago
    It got better for Edge after anniversary update. But I would not call that "fixed", because it is not on par with ClearType. Microsoft can go fuck himself, I am not going change my monitor/hardware everytime he wants. I would be much much happy with my Fedora/Ubuntu, or if I want good support there is always apple much superior to Microsoft.
    - becarefulyo 10y ago
      Apple uses grayscale font rendering too, not even pixel aligned. It looks nice because all of their devices are high DPI.
      - 0xFFC 10y ago
        Exactly, They know their hardware, and trying to optimize their software for their hardware. Microsoft do know what hardware people use (in third world country I would say 99% of people do use low dpi monitor), but they changed and ruined people experience anyway. That is the main point, they don't care about existing user. I bet if apple monitors was low-dpi monitor, apple would do everything they can to improve font rendering in their low-dpi monitors. Do you see the mindset?
        Jenya_ 10y ago
        Unlike Windows 10, Mac OS X still supports subpixel font antialiasing (similar to ClearType in Windows 7), it is called LCD font smoothing there, e.g.: https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/os-x-yosemite-disable-lcd-font-smoothing/ https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/os-x-yosemite-disable-lcd-font-...

0xFFC 10y ago

This is not true ! UWP (which most of the internal app are porting into it), does use DirectWrite and there is no way to change its font rendering engine to ClearType.

becarefulyo 10y ago
I think you're right, looks like it was only fixed for Edge. Discussion of technical challenge is here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150129-00/?p=44803 https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20150129-00/?p=...
- 0xFFC 10y ago
  It got better for Edge after anniversary update. But I would not call that "fixed", because it is not on par with ClearType. Microsoft can go fuck himself, I am not going change my monitor/hardware everytime he wants. I would be much much happy with my Fedora/Ubuntu, or if I want good support there is always apple much superior to Microsoft.
  - becarefulyo 10y ago
    Apple uses grayscale font rendering too, not even pixel aligned. It looks nice because all of their devices are high DPI.
    - 0xFFC 10y ago
      Exactly, They know their hardware, and trying to optimize their software for their hardware. Microsoft do know what hardware people use (in third world country I would say 99% of people do use low dpi monitor), but they changed and ruined people experience anyway. That is the main point, they don't care about existing user. I bet if apple monitors was low-dpi monitor, apple would do everything they can to improve font rendering in their low-dpi monitors. Do you see the mindset?
      - Jenya_ 10y ago
        Unlike Windows 10, Mac OS X still supports subpixel font antialiasing (similar to ClearType in Windows 7), it is called LCD font smoothing there, e.g.: https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/os-x-yosemite-disable-lcd-font-smoothing/ https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/os-x-yosemite-disable-lcd-font-...