Comments on: Make Windows fonts look as smooth as Mac OS X fonts

By: kadajawi

kadajawi — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:52:20 +0000

@GARY0: No. The MacOS X and GDI++ font renderer is trying to make the fonts as they were supposed to look like. ClearType tries to squeeze the fonts around until they work on screen. It’s a different philosophy. I prefer Apple’s philosophy, and since I switched to GDI++ fonts look so beautiful it makes me want to read a lot on screen.

You can experiment with the GDI++ settings a lot, like adjust the amount of hinting (beating the fonts into shape for the screen) you want. Just experiment with it. And no, you can not achieve the same effect with ClearType or any tool for ClearType, because Microsoft follows a different philosophy.

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Typekit and Apple Font Rendering on Windows « Hamagudi — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:11:27 +0000

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By: brent

brent — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:20:24 +0000

for me, when I do all the steps from 1 – 4… my G doesn’t turn green when I double click it. It says when I mouse gover over it, “GDI++ is halt”

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Få smoothe fonter på Windows (som på Mac) — mattisaas.no — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:12:43 +0000

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By: Hadee

Hadee — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 01:28:01 +0000

I’m getting the same message:

GDI++ Controller
Could not load gdi++.dll

Any suggestions?

By: matt

matt — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:51:22 +0000

great program but doesn’t affect all the places eg menu line, context menus are not anti-aliased. I hope the next version will be fine. In the other hand i wonder why microsoft doesn’t support different antialiasing modes. they have stolen from mac os a lot already, so maybe one little thing more … ;P more usefull than stupid gadgets that doesn’t even properly sometimes

By: Ameya

Ameya — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:35:07 +0000

Not quite there yet, but definitely an awesome effort !!!!

By: ¿Fuentes en Windows tan suaves como en Mac OS X? Con GDI++, es posible.

¿Fuentes en Windows tan suaves como en Mac OS X? Con GDI++, es posible. — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:02:20 +0000

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By: eX.A.K.R.

eX.A.K.R. — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:15:32 +0000

I think we need a 64-bit version of this – I’m trying this out and only the fonts in 32-bit applications are being smoothed.

Keep up the good work here, though.