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IE7 ClearType Rocks!

designdelineations.com — I like the cleartype feature in IE7. Some feel it is too strong, but it makes reading online easier.

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  • gfw123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh goodie, a blog post.

    No digg.
  • diggerman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nice find. I had not previously heard of cleartype. Hopefully they will put this into Opera
  • tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Uh, ClearType is a WindowsXP feature, not an IE7 feature.
  • tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1designde: It can be enabled on the OS level, with or without IE7, which applies it to every application.
  • epall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Isn't this just sub-pixel anti-aliasing? I could've sworn I turned that on in Tiger a few months ago...
  • designde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, I'm glad you can disable it, but even though im only 33, having the type appear darker takes a load off my eyes. I would also agree with you about bold being a bad thing if it messed with a font's ability to display bold type. However, bold type, in your way of thinking is "bolder".

    Designers have known for a long time that type for print and screen are different animals. Yes, there's a bit of blurriness with some fonts onscreen with ClearType, but it at least is not trying to pretend to be type for print.



    The net effect is that I can still tell what is bold and regular type. I can read with less eye strain.
  • bonzooznob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0No Clear Type sucks, and sucks large!

    It messes with font widths (makes everything wider), and generally makes all text appear "bold".

    Since all browsers worth a damn, can scale text content, ClearType is essentially useless.

    For those with a 'cheap' LCD display, fine, enjoy being able to read your text at a bit of an angle, but for the rest of us, thank god they provided an option to TURN IT OFF!!!!!!
  • designde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Yeah, But can be enabled in IE7.
  • designde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Thanks Rob: The post has been edited. You're credited.
  • designde, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Hey, take it easy. I'm learning my way around social bookmarking.
  • designde, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Still easy on my eyes when reading sans-serif type, but I'm beginning to see the blurriness on serif type as a real problem with cleartype.
  • akira117, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0lame.....

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