[0.981] New font looks terrible

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Is it supposed to look like this? See screenshot.

Running Win XP 32-bit with ATI HD4850.

 

 

 

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

That does look terrible, font appears to be pixel-snapped. Do you run with ClearType disabled?
This is just a guess, I have no idea if the new font rendering system is even affected by that setting.

For reference, here's what it looks like on my Win7 64-bit w/ClearType enabled:

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Yeah, that is weird.  I was going to post that I love the new fonts!!!  Wonder what is going on for you.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

It does look like cleartype is disabled in the OS.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

Thanks guys, enabling Cleartype did the trick.

And now I remember why I disabled it... My eyes must be seriously messed up, I find it much harder to read text with cleartype enabled.

Looks great in the game though. :)

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

We are going to see about forcing it on for the FE fonts only in the future.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Oh that's very interesting.

ClearType fonts in FE. FTW.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Neil, reply 6
We are going to see about forcing it on for the FE fonts only in the future.
End of Neil's quote

Much appreciated!