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I don't think it's font scaling. It's a fundamental change to the font renderer. Basically, subpixel rendering is gone and it's all grayscale. http://answers.m
by robododo 13y ago
I don't think it's font scaling. It's a fundamental change to the font renderer. Basically, subpixel rendering is gone and it's all grayscale.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/windows-8-fonts-in-metro-ui-and-ie-10-blurry/3c29c415-54fd-44c8-b290-1c01dd05beaf http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/w...
I've not played with 8.1 yet, but hopefully it's been addressed.
- rayiner 13y agoSubpixel rendering makes no sense on a tablet where the direction of the subpixels changes from landspace to portrait mode.
- eurleif 13y agoCouldn't the subpixel hinting change too?
- rayiner 13y agoYou can, but the point of subpixel rendering is increasing effective resolution, and for English text, horizontal resolution is more useful than vertical resolution. See: https://www.grc.com/ctwhat.htm https://www.grc.com/ctwhat.htm.
- astrodust 13y agoIt's not just English text, it's virtually every written language. There are very few that use a vertical orientation, and fewer still that use only a vertical orientation. Hebrew, Georgian and Arabic all benefit equally from sub-pixel resolution. Even vertical Chinese would be improved by having more detail on each character.