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Re:So I Made A Mashup, And Then… by sil3ntmac on Saturday September 08, 2012 @01:51PM (#4493487)
That seems excessive, perhaps just upgrade to a more progressive font-smoothing algorithm? ClearType is built for lo-res displays (it snaps pixels to a grid rather than smoothing), so as you'd expect it looks like utter crap on a nice monitor. I have heard good things about gditray:

http://www.cobyx.com/software/gdi/

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Re:So I Made A Mashup, And Then… by cheald on Saturday September 08, 2012 @02:11PM (#4493539)
Have to design for the lowest common denominator. Just because you and I can install gditray or whatnot doesn't mean that most people will.

Edit: The link even says that it doesn't work with Chrome, so it's still a non-starter.

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Re:So I Made A Mashup, And Then… by ivank on Saturday September 08, 2012 @02:25PM (#4493572)
Chrome should have DirectWrite rendering soon: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups=#...
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