Aqua-Soft Forums@Graphic Adam:
You have to change it with regedit! Simply paste the size you want behind the fontname for example: Lucida Grande, 7pt
[tutorial] font smoothing/thickening
Wow. Thanks man!
The difference is really noticeable. I bolded and grayscaled LucidaGrande. I really liked LucidaMAC, but it seemed too bold in the vertical direction. I was right. It now really looks like those beautiful Mac screenies :-0
And I kept thinking CRT users didn't have anything nice... 
keep up the great work!
ANYWAY, I still can't find a way to smooth some fonts on my system. It's not a lot, but it's annoying. It's the font that's used in one or more system preferences dialogs.
I really do love how the buttons turned out though. Can't get any more Mac-ish ^^.
EDIT: Found it, was just Microsoft Sans Serif. Thought it was some non-TrueType or OpenType font... But it works 
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xXGogetaXx, if you want to, you can just edit the System fonts via the registry (there is a thread here about it, it's pretty easy), then restart, and those fonts that you specified will change 
I hate to bump this thread (even more so with a double-post), but there just HAS to be a way to go around the fact that when you smooth a font, it looks pretty much like . . shit when it's displayed as a white character. If you take a look at this screenshot (I hate to pick it out) http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35720699/ , you can clearly see that a) it's windows, but more importantly, that incredibly smoothed font looks amazing in white. None of the fonts that I've smoothed look halfway decent when they are displayed as a white character. Does ANYONE have a solution for this?
I hate to bump this thread (even more so with a double-post), but there just HAS to be a way to go around the fact that when you smooth a font, it looks pretty much like . . shit when it's displayed as a white character. If you take a look at this screenshot (I hate to pick it out) http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/35720699/ , you can clearly see that a) it's windows, but more importantly, that incredibly smoothed font looks amazing in white. None of the fonts that I've smoothed look halfway decent when they are displayed as a white character. Does ANYONE have a solution for this?
Some fonts are easier to modify than others, some fonts just give you a tough time. Sometimes, I use two separate fonts, one for black and one for white (you can specify fonts easily with Styler so you can use both simultaneously). The font to be displayed in white typically requires little/no bolding whatsoever. Just switch on grayscale for that particularly font and forget bolding. Try that and see if it works.
@JesterMania: Can you share your Lucida Grande smooth and other fonts, Master? Thanks.
Can someone honestly claim to have obtained a nice, useable (greyscaled and/or thickened) mod of Lucida Grande? The reason I'm asking is because, for the life of me, I just cannot do that. I have followed the tutorial to the letter (using FontCreator 5.5) and the results are disappointing. Glyphs that consist of vertical lines simply appear thicker (actually black) than the rest of the glyphs, for instance, those that are rounded (actually grey). As a result, the font looks inconsistent, and can't be used as such. This is true for version only with greyscaling AND for version with greyscaling and various degrees of thickening. For the record, I have used Iceman's Lucida Grande font available on his website.
Hmm, wierd. Try smoothing out Aquabase. However, my Lucida Grande looks fine.
try the Lucida Gr from blitzr's leopard skin... it's the best I've seen so far
Sorry for bumping this but is there any way of smoothing .FON files?
Has anyone tried smoothing on Nvidia drivers?
I tried everything and my fonts still have jaggies on them :S
Here are the current settings;
