From: Tait <Tait@...>
Date: 2005-02-20T00:49:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] FXIrb 0.14 - a Win32 GUI wrapper around IRB

martinus wrote:
>>At home I dual boot, but I've been spending most of my time in
> 
> Windows
> 
>>lately for one very compelling reason - the fonts.
> 
> 
> For me it is exactly the other way round. I use an LCD monitor, and I
> have to say the XFree's subpixel hinting is far superiour to
> Microsoft's implementation, on windows the fonts always look a bit
> washy. Oh, and I use the Bitstream fonts wherever possible, they are
> really good: http://www.gnome.org/fonts/
> 
> 
> martinus
> 

Sometimes the reason the fonts look washy on Windows is that ClearType 
isn't set up right.  When I had overly fuzzy fonts on my dell LCD at 
work, I did some digging around and found out it was due to subpixel 
order: default hinting for an R-G-B subpixel order is very wrong on a 
B-G-R panel.

If you want to play with it, have a look at 
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypePowerToy.mspx.

Tait

p.s.  First post. Hi all.