Even ClearType does not look perfect out of the box on every display type [1] . I have had to tune it a few times over the years for myself and others. I am pretty sure I had to do some kind of tuning on a Linux distro at least once or twice in the last decade as well. I do not specifically remember any of the displays or Linux or Windows distros and releases involved.

[1]
https://blog.yuo.be/2025/05/20/what-does-each … rtype-tuner-do/

konc wrote on 2026-09-26, 12:18:

UCyborg wrote on 2026-09-26, 11:44:

You don't realize how much you miss ClearType until it's not there.

Yep there is an obvious difference and it's funny how people pretend it's not there, like many other things. Some might be annoyed more or less than others but it doesn't mean there's no issue.

No disagreement there. However, badly tuned ClearType (or any other similar functionality) can be worse than no ClearType.

Yeah, I don't use ClearType defaults on Windows.

But Windows keeps getting worse and no one has an answer to "What about those of us who'd be lost on Linux or Mac?".

On the fonts, it's individual. Some people are very sensitive to font differences.

I also cannot tolerate font rendering in "modern web browsers" at all, Chromium (along with POS Electron crap) and Firefox completely disregard ClearType, it's all a blurry thin grey mess thanks to Skia, which I hate with passion. On Linux, that familiar poor font rendering that I know from Chromium on Windows, it's everywhere.

Maybe it's fixable, but even if it is, when so many things bother you that you'd basically have to reprogram everything, what's the point?