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Ah this has reminded me how awesome gdipp is [0]. For those who don't know, it's an alternative renderer for Windows that makes the fonts look a lot better. The
by joonoro 11y ago
Ah this has reminded me how awesome gdipp is [0]. For those who don't know, it's an alternative renderer for Windows that makes the fonts look a lot better. The only downsides are that it hasn't been updated in years and that it breaks the font rendering in a few applications (notably Chrome and Skype).
[0] https://code.google.com/p/gdipp/ https://code.google.com/p/gdipp/
- jd3 11y agoI've always preferred MacType[0] over the old gdipp project. It improved upon elements from the gdipp project in many ways. You can try out my config if you like: [1]. [0]: https://code.google.com/p/mactype/ https://code.google.com/p/mactype/ [1]: http://pastebin.com/YP23PP5v http://pastebin.com/YP23PP5v
- omgtehlion 11y agoThis is a matter of choice I suppose. For me gdipp (or mac ftm) rendered fonts look like just crap. Never been typographic junkie though...
- tuxracer 11y agoIt also depends on the DPI of your display. The classic Windows font renderer sacrifices accuracy for readability on low DPI displays. If the stroke of a font was going to be 1.3 pixels wide at a given siW Windows will just crop the extra 0.3 to give a crisp edge on low DPI displays. Unfortunately on HiDPI displays this can needlessly make the font stroke very thin.