Adjust how fonts render in Windows

Windows is great at supporting a vast amount of hardware but for some users, they want their fonts to render differently. This comes into play more and more with higher resolution screens. **Possible knobs:** - Default text rendering - Force symmetric smoothing on - Force symmetric smoothing on and hinting off Smashing magazine has a [good overview of different rendering](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/a-closer-look-at-font-rendering/). Note there are two major rendering systems inside Windows, DirectWrite and GDI. Some applications handle their own rendering as well. There is an open source project under GPLv3 that does something like this. https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype Here is additional discussions on ClearType and other Microsoft Typography. - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/cleartype/ - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/

Posted by crutkas on Sep 30, 2020, 8:26 PM

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