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

By: Jed

Jed — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:15:05 +0000

When you say’everything just looks a little bit better on a Mac’ I presume you mean everything looks blurred. I would have to agree. Personally though I prefer text that isn’t blurred as I find it easier to read. If you want everything to look out of focus like they do on a Mac just take your designer glasses off.

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By: Trevor Ray

Trevor Ray — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:53:35 +0000

Chrome no longer supports GDIPP.
Now looks funky.

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By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 08:00:03 +0000

It would have been better if only it worked on Firefox 4.

By: M

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:57:45 +0000

UGH, THIS IS AWESOME! THANK YOU!!!

By: George

George — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 23:13:45 +0000

Excellent tool. Must have for me, especially when writting lines and lines of code. Started looking for a better looking font the minute i tried developing in Ubuntu and realized how much better the fonts looks (traditionally a Windows developed). Using Consolas now makes sense (Inconsolatas as well).

Also, Chrome doesn’t always render smoothed fonts as it attempts to do it’s own font rendering (as does Safari)

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 11:31:55 +0000

I always enable this and it applies perfectly to all my fonts, but the one problem that I always have is that websites I access using Google Chrome aren’t smoothed out. However, when I use Firefox, they are smoothed out.. does anyone know why this is? Also, the font to the toolbar, tabs, etc. on Google Chrome *is* smoothed out, just not the text on the websites. I’m using Windows XP. I’d greatly appreciate if someone could give me a solution.

By: PMW

PMW — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 12:35:01 +0000

Nice effort. I run both Snow Leopard and Win 7. My experience has always been that Macs just look better. The text looks smooth and cool. Windows fonts look jagged. After reading the comments about the two, I’ve tested the two. I can read Windows fonts easier from a distance–they’re clearer. Mac fonts look mushy or cloudy. With ClearType, even enlarged fonts look good. Small ones are much easier to read than small Mac fonts. When I expand the Mac screen with zoom (ctrl+wheel) the fonts are much smoother and nice than say the little program ZoomIt for Windows. It’s not ZoomIt, it’s a cool app, but it’s just expanding Windows more pixelated fonts.
Like so many things with Mac vs. Win it seems to come down to preference, habit and even devotion!
My current opinion is that while Mac fonts may look cooler, they are harder to read–harder on the eyes. Much what others have said.
Thanks for the effort on GDI++.