Fonts

re: Fonts

Philip Rieck — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:58:00 GMT

I've run the ClearType tuner.... I guess I'm crazy. I look at text all day on LCD screens (home, work, tablet) -- and ClearType still looks bad to me, except for "quick" reading.

Yes, it's great to glance at and all, but after a bit it just looks like the same font with bold turned on, and made blury. Yes, the lines are smoother, but it's still *blury*!

(and my LCDs vary in resolution and dpi, same effect).

Everyone on the web seems to rave about using cleartype to make text slightly blury -- I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!

re: Fonts

KC Lemson — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 00:41:00 GMT

What magic registry key/buried setting is this? I also always change the default fonts in every application I use to Verdana... outlook and excel are in tools/options, word I changed in the default template, etc... is there some way of setting a system default to Verdana that the applications will inherit?

re: Fonts

Mario Goebbels — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 02:22:00 GMT

I use Tahoma wherever possible. Well, both Verdana and Tahoma are my favorites, but Verdana is too "airy", the other font is compacter which I prefer.

re: Fonts

Tony — Sat, 17 Jan 2004 04:52:00 GMT

Philip, ClearType still needs to be combined with a relatively high DPI LCD monitor. On lower resolution displays it will look slightly blurry or have color fringing. Try 1600x1200 or similar on a <= 20" LCD.

Omar, nothing, and I mean N.O.T.H.I.N.G. beats Andale Mono as a monospaced font for coding. :-)

Font choices, and other religious wars

Jonathan Hardwick — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 03:32:00 GMT

Font choices, and other religious wars

Jonathan Hardwick — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 03:40:00 GMT