[help] Jaggy Fonts On The Desk

I've just noticed, that the font on my crni's CDBox widget is jagged when using it on lighter wallpapers,

but it isn't when im working on it in the samurize config editor...

Has anyone an idea how to solve that ? :blink:

The font is Lucida Grande (Bold) 8pt, white, either 180 or 200 Alpha Blending.

Thanks, XimmoX

Have you got ClearType enabled?

The jagged font is nothing to do with CDCovers or Samurize its your graphics it happens on high contrasting colours. If your graphics card is powerful enough it should come with an option to force AntiAliasing. I have mine set to force 4xS and I have no jagged fonts anymore.

#158262

Yes, Cleartype is on of course.

I have a Radeon 9000 ... not the newest model ... <_<

The settings are all on standard, perhaps all have a got with them later.

#158280

Either disable cleartype or disable the "Antialiased" option for the text meters in the config editor.

#158412

I've already tried both options, but then the text does still look weird ...

Does anyone perhaps know another font than Lucida Grande which might look good ?

Thanks, XimmoX

#158435

Some fonts look this way on certain backgrounds...Just use the config editor to try different fonts....I have had similiar problems with certain fonts, just keep trying to find one that looks good on your desktop config..trial & error my friend

#158501

Arial looks quite good to me, does anyone know other fonts that are not so common or well known ?

#158615

I think you'll find that you're not the only one with this problem:

I'm using Century Gothic (thanks to Pe7er for the find), to make it work with light & dark coloured backgrounds I've created two almost identical configs: one with the text in white and one with the text in black.

On top of this I've placed a link (text meter) to each other (can now be easily done using the new commandline options: client.exe i=instancename c=configname).

Then depending on whether I've got a dark/light background I simply need to click on the config for the configs to switch over.

Hope that made sense.

#158669

Yes, that made sense Tadi, thank you for the tip, but i really like the white font on the light blue background ...

so it will stay with Arial 8pt, because it looks better than Century Gothic as long as Anti-Aliasing is disabled.

#158715

LucidaConsole 9 pt. seems to work well for me

#158716