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Re:The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our e... by Bjartr on Saturday March 26, 2016 @12:47PM (#11366317)
You can probably go through the cleartype calibration wizard to improve the font rendering, I'm basing that on the assumption that the out of the box settings are probably tuned to look good on generic lcd screens
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Re:The Chrome Distortion: how Chrome negatively alters our e... by speeder on Saturday March 26, 2016 @03:03PM (#11366938)
I did, many, MANY times, also tried disabling it, and doing other things.

there are two issues: 1) Windows 8 assumes CRTs won't ever be used with it, and takes the liberty to do some LCD specific graphics stuff, that doesn't even work in LCDs that are organized differently (example: if the panel is "sideways" somehow).

2) the default system font of Windows 8 onwards is "Segoe", that renders poorly in CRTs, and even worse if you disable anti-aliasing of any kind.

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