Aqua-Soft ForumsOk i was on a mac yesterday and of course we all love it! but... is there anyway to make the font look smooth, thick and beautiful? i already use cleartype and that isn't what i'm talking about, look at a screen shot of a mac and look at the font as to a windows machine, you'll get it!
The font problem
Use the LucidaGr font made by blitzr...it comes with his WB themes. I think its the closest you can get the fonts to look like a MAC. Windows font renderring is no where near compared to that of Mac. And the font was specially made so windows wouldnt mess up the originality of Lucida Grande.
yep, windows and mac have different font rendering...
In addition to using clear type and/or using Lucida Gr as per above post, you can also alter some items in the Windows Registry: open regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Control Panel/Desktop, find item "FontSmoothingGamma", right-click- select "modify" - tick off "decimal". you should see a number (default is 2000 ?). change it to a number below 2000, e.g. 1000 (I personally have mine at 750). Exit regedit, log off-log on. see if there is a perceptible change. if there is and you don't like it, you can play around with the numbers, and you you could always go back to the default numbers. hope this helps your quest, hehe...
I cant find that entry. I can only see FontSmoothing, FontOrientation and FontType. and none of those have values going so high.
oops! should have stated, if running xp home (sp2)...or try searching the registry for the string "gamma" or "smoothing"...
So the option isnt there on Xp professional (SP2)? I did try searching like that. Couldnt find anything
Don't know about xp pro... create/write a new DWORD value 'FontSmoothingGamma' in the said reg location, maybe? Set initial value (decimal base) at 2000...
Ok I got it. You need to have PowerToy installed. You can see the Value in the registry then. I changed it to 750, i believe its hex value is 2ee. But the difference was very minor.