Technology in terms you understand. Sign up for the Confident Computing newsletter for weekly solutions to make your life easier. Click here and get The Ask Leo! There are times when the fonts in Windows 10 just look … well, they look crummy, for lack of a better term. I did discover that it was useful to set my display to its recommended or native resolution. I was missing something obvious. Become a Patron of Ask Leo! Compare that to the text re-displayed after I fixed the problem.
This will bring up a short wizard that will allow you to make minor adjustments to how ClearType displays text on your machine. I checked the box, zipped through the rest of the wizard, and lo and behold, all of a sudden my text was clear and crisp. I did have to close and re-open my browser for the changes to take effect within it. I expect that ClearType should always be on. Subscribe to Confident Computing! Less frustration and more confidence, solutions, answers, and tips in your inbox every week.
Download right-click, Save-As Duration: — 2. This is one of those issues with Windows that just drive people crazy. Clear type should be enabled by default by Microsoft, and in the minority of cases where Clear type does not do what it is supposed to, then those machines should be the ones to have to adjust. Really, how many calls to tech support centers could be avoided, or for that matter, how many computers are returned to the retailer as defective just because most people do not understand that they need to do this?
I should have said that it might not help much. A user might be fortunate enough to have the arrangement that Clear Type defaults to or the worst arrangement. If Microsoft was smart, they would have looked at the most common pixel arrangement in monitors and used that as the default. When I enabled Clear Text, it vastly improved the display of text.
I fine tuned it and it was better, but barely noticeable. Hi everybody, since other people had the same question, I wanted to contribute what I have been able to achieve on a current version of W10, not the technical preview since I posted this question: 1. In the W10 Performance options, turn off the "Smooth edges of screen fonts". It is one of the few fonts not smoothed by W You should see the Korean Supplemental Fonts feature in the list as installed or in the process of being installed.
Create a. REG file i. Save the file on the Desktop, close it, doubleclick it, confirm the UAC prompt and the warning with yes to add the contents to the registry file. Where these are not disabled, the font size is increased using DPI fix to soften the strain on the eyes by lessening the blurriness of the fonts. Each method described above can of course be applied independently to achieve various effects.
Once you have created the registry file simply a text file that you have renamed , you only have to doubleclick it and confirm the two security questions. That's it! Thanks, Edualc. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.
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How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. For more detailed instructions on this topic, see another author's article of ours at the link below. The ClearType text tool has been developed by Microsoft and allows you to make the best possible display of system font.
Various images are presented to you and you have to choose the best one. The procedure is the next:. If you don't see any changes right away, restart your system and double-check the effectiveness of the tool you are using.
The above method is basic and usually helps to optimize the text of the system in the best way. However, in case you do not get the desired result, it is worth checking if an important parameter responsible for antialiasing is activated.
Its location and activation is carried out by means of the following instruction:. After completing this procedure, it is also recommended to restart the computer, after which any irregularities in the fonts on the screen should disappear. If you are faced with the fact that the displayed text not only has minor inaccuracies and flaws, but is blurry, the methods mentioned above may not help to solve this problem.
When such a situation occurs, the first thing to pay attention to is the scale and resolution of the screen.
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