Disable cleartype text in windows 7

SystemParametersInfo win32con. I'm not sure how to do it without Rebooting But i found that changing the FontSmoothing keys was simply not enough Hellspawn Hellspawn 21 1 1 bronze badge. Deepak Azad Deepak Azad 7, 2 2 gold badges 32 32 silver badges 49 49 bronze badges. Of course, this is not limited to vb. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook.

Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Stack Gives Back Funny enough, there are some monitors where the 3rd example would look perfect, and the 1st example would look terrible. If I adjusted the image correctly, then the first and second examples will look correct on monitors with an [R G B] sub-pixel layout, and the 3rd example will look correct on monitors with a [B G R] sub-pixel layout.

Some monitors have a [B G R] sub-pixel layout without being rotated, which would cause ClearType to look pretty bad out-of-the-box. You'll need to run the ClearType Tuner utility in order to adjust it for such displays. Interesting assertion. Last edited: Aug 19, Snowdog said:. We are using the same calibrated monitors and I have corrected vision, and I am also extremely visually picky. I assume you are using the default sharpness of Turning it up I see color fringing, but at default I don't.

Italic fonts in particular benefit from CT on. See italics at the top and the bottom of this comparison image. Do CT haters all find the left side better? I do recognize what you're saying with italics, but have no issue with the non-CT italics in general. I'll agree that the grey fine print looks better with CT in your example but, overall, I'd be turning CT off in an instant.

Out of curiosity, what's your vision correction like? Glasses or contacts? If glasses, high index or standard index affects off-axis chromatic aberration? Strong prescription or weak? I'm definitely in the pro-CT camp. I wear glasses nearsighted and have for at least a decade. Whether with my glasses on or off, the CT text is more readable. Maybe my corrected vision is better than yours?

I prefer the razor sharp text with no CT, even if I can see the pixels. Perhaps the aversion is a product of wearing eyeglasses. The colour fringing and blur makes a glasses-wearer feel that they're looking through their glasses off-axis, or their dirty, or they need a new prescription. Those who have never had glasses don't have that reaction. I dunno And I still stand by it.

Check the sharpness setting on the monitor itself a lot of hardware calibrators miss this. ClearType offers 3 times the horizontal resolution for text. It looks far sharper than non-ClearType on every properly calibrated screen I've seen Tawnos 2[H]4U. Joined Sep 9, Messages 3, Joined Jun 21, Messages 3, I have perfect near field vision, sitting arms length away from a 26" x native res, CT looks horrid. Turned it off in most things, but the font this forum uses evades me.

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Mount an ISO image in Windows. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Jennifer Fischer. I would like to completely disable all font smoothing, anti-aliasing, etc I find it difficult to read and it gives me a headache. Here's what I've tried so far: 1. Switched to Windows 7 Basic theme. No Aero. Run the ClearType tuner.