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Tried it in vmware earlier. I couldn't find a simple way to turn off font smoothing, only a 4 step wizard which kept repeatedly showing me text samples and aski
by nimbix 17y ago
Tried it in vmware earlier. I couldn't find a simple way to turn off font smoothing, only a 4 step wizard which kept repeatedly showing me text samples and asking which one looked best. Smoothed text makes me nauseous for some reason and I can't stand it.
- chaosmachine 17y agoMicrosoft's implementation of font smoothing is really terrible. The way they use subpixels leads to a weird red/green halo on some letters. Interestingly, font smoothing in OSX doesn't suffer from this problem.
- briansmith 17y agoApple's implementation of font smoothing is really terrible. The way they emulate print rendering on-screen makes every letter blurry and unnecessarily bold. Interestingly, font smoothing in Windows doesn't suffer from this problem.
- chaosmachine 17y agoThat's true, but I find it much less of a problem than the colored halos.
- ensignavenger 17y agoIt would be great if both companies cross-licensed their font smoothing technology to each other, and allowed users to choose which method they want on either OS.