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28 February 2007

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I frequently got headaches if I read too much text on the monitor but the problem seems to have all but went away. I had not really thought much about it, but I think it was when I started using this.

post by: weretable and the undead chairs at: 22:39 | 13 comments

What were you using before?

posted by mischief 28 February | 22:47

Umm, you can do this without power toys. It's under display-appearance-advanced-smoothing of edged (or somesuch).

posted by ironlizard 28 February | 22:53

I think it offers both options on that page I linked.

posted by weretable and the undead chairs 28 February | 22:55

Oh, wait. Nevermind.

posted by ironlizard 28 February | 22:55

me too. nevermind.

posted by mischief 28 February | 22:58

They should call it Fuzzy Text.

To some degree, I like anti-aliasing, but it's frequently overdone to the point that it is harder to read.

posted by knave 28 February | 22:59

Umm, you can do this without power toys. It's under display-appearance-advanced-smoothing of edged (or somesuch).
It's actually display-appearance-effects-use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts-ClearType.

And thanks, I had herd of ClearType, but had never got around to trying it. It looks much easier to read.

posted by dg 28 February | 23:13

i use ubuntu linux. my beautiful, reasonably sized Bitstream Vera font is wondrous to behold. fuck you, bill.

posted by quonsar 28 February | 23:47

Well, my guess was a low refresh rate, but I was obviously wrong.

posted by TheDonF 01 March | 02:25

Using the Display properties page you can only enable or disable Cleartype. Using the tuner powertoy you get a slider which allows you to set the degree of antialiasing along a spectrum. To me, that's invaluable because the default is too fuzzy.

posted by Rhomboid 01 March | 14:04

Wow, I just got home and tried this on the home computer- I can't BELIEVE how much of a difference it makes! Thanks so much, weretable!

posted by BoringPostcards 01 March | 17:37

weretable, i love you forever, that is all.

posted by lonefrontranger 01 March | 18:39

Fantastic! I've been using occhiblu's laptop the last couple of days and this makes it much nicer.

posted by ikkyu2 01 March | 22:15

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