Comments on: Tune Your ClearType Font Settings in Windows Vista

By: CJD

CJD — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:39:06 +0000

GDI tray is better than ClearType, but aliased fonts are easiest on the eyes. I love crisp fonts; ClearType seems like eye-rape to me.

By: Darth Vader

Darth Vader — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:53:09 +0000

Standard looks worse than ClearType in Vista (I have a CRT made in 2004).
The font will look thin or stringy.. not dark enough (if in standard mode). Is there a way to fix that other than using ClearType?

By: Alex Jones

Alex Jones — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:43:58 +0000

Still not good, but better than the default level. Why can’t I uninstall ClearType altogether? It gives me headaches.

By: kyle

kyle — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:25:16 +0000

i use gdi tray and its awesome!

By: Mr Vertigo

Mr Vertigo — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:46:31 +0000

What does this utility actually do (in visual terms)? Makes fonts darker? Thicker? Smoother than the default ClearType?

By: The Geek

The Geek — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:15:09 +0000

Just set it back to 1.2, which was the default.

By: CDE

CDE — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:13:18 +0000

nooooo!!
i preferred how it was 1st, how do i change it back?

By: Levent Dal

Levent Dal — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 01:05:41 +0000

In laptops and such monitors it is a must have.

In my CRT (runs on XP system) I love ClearType in web pages but the menu and title bars aren’t that good. Indeed it is blurry no matter how dark or light I set the font color. So till IE7 I couldn’t use it.

In IE7 you can enable ClearType from the list in advanced settings.

By: Mr Linux

Mr Linux — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 22:12:59 +0000

Most modern CRTs look best with ClearType. It’s only the really old ones that can’t handle the subpixel rendering.