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I had read/heard that Windows 11 has a different font rendering system? No longer using Clear Type.. how does that stack up nowadays?

• WorldMaker 4y ago
  Clear Type is not "Clear Type". Windows has been through several versions of Clear Type and the version in Windows 10 even is different from the 1.0 that launched with Windows XP and is still for odd reasons what most people think about when they think about "Clear Type". An ever-increasing amount of text in Windows since Windows 8 has been using DirectWrite, much more than "Clear Type". A lot of people still colloquially lump DirectWrite under their idea of "Clear Type" (the GDI+ Clear Type and DirectWrite are obviously designed to "get along" and live side-by-side and share some characteristics) but there's even more of a "version difference" between DirectWrite and Clear Type than many think especially those still thinking of "Clear Type" as in the Windows XP setting. To my understanding, Windows 11 doesn't do anything substantially new from Windows 8+ other than it has iterated much further on moving as much as it can of "everything" in the base OS rendering to DirectWrite and out of GDI+. (But DirectWrite itself has been around since Windows 8. Though I'm probably making a similar mistake in thinking that DirectWrite hasn't changed substantially much in its versions since then.) Presumably that has been a motivating factor in the taskbar rewrites and context menu rewrites that many dislike about Windows 11, removing more and more GDI from common paths.