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Thursday 23 December, 02004

Better screen fonts in Windows XP

by Matthew Bartlett @ 9:34 pm

Control Panel » Display » Appearance » Effects » Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts » ClearType

ClearType tuner PowerToy [via Ian H]

6 responses to “Better screen fonts in Windows XP”

  1. Hans says:
    Thursday 23 December, 02004 at 9:39 pm

    Hey, it makes a difference, thank you Matt. Happy birthday by the way, somewhat late, sorry.

  2. Matthew Bartlett says:
    Thursday 23 December, 02004 at 9:43 pm

    Thanks Hans.

  3. dan says:
    Friday 24 December, 02004 at 2:21 pm

    I have an aesthetic coronary when I use a machine without this setting.

  4. Richard D. Bartlett says:
    Friday 24 December, 02004 at 7:57 pm

    i guess you’re cooler than me then dan

  5. Bart says:
    Tuesday 28 December, 02004 at 10:41 am

    Use Verdana or Georgia as your ssytem fonts, they were designed to scale ‘properly’ and are very easy on the eye even with ClearType off.

  6. dan says:
    Wednesday 29 December, 02004 at 9:34 am

    nah. I’m just fussy/picky/pedantic/stupid.

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