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Making Windows antialias on all font sizes
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ClearType for CRTs (without the nasty colors)
This is a holy grail I've been looking for for a long time. Gentoo can do it (other distros without bytecode hinting), BeOS can do it, but why can't Windows? Windows apparently abides a flag in the TTF file, that specifies which font sizes should be antialiased unhinted, which should only be hinted, and which should be hinted AND antialiased. With most fonts, font sizes 8-14 are hinted but not antialiased. After looking for the solution to my problem after some FontSmoothing registry hacking, I found a nice page describing the problem and the program suited to fix it. Since I'm not the kind of person who would keep such rarely available information to himself, I decided to dedicate a webpage to it and put up some fonts that have the fix applied.
First, let me show you what it looks like:
No antialiasing:
ClearType antialiasing:
Regular antialiasing on all sizes (cum fonts):
As you can see, there are some issues with cum font antialiasing, which I blame on M$'s font engine having bugs. It would be nicer to see cum font antialiasing looking just as thick and elegant as ClearType, but without the colors. It would of course be even nicer if this hacking of TTF files wasn't needed at all, and it were just a simple choice in the display properties. So, if a Microsoft employee reads this, don't sue me for distributing fonts, but implement this feature in some kind of Plus or Service Pack. Or in Longhorn, for all I care.
Download:
!!DISCLAIMER!!
Download this pack ONLY if you have a valid Windows licence. These are copyrighted fonts, and I don't want to get an evil mail of copyright infringement™. This is simply on offer here as a replacement for fonts you already have rights to. |
TTF Fonts (Western Fonts + International fonts in TTF Format) - 11MB
TTC Fonts (East Asian Fonts in TTC Format (Gulim, MS Gothic, etc) - 20MB
And the footer stuff:
Contact: net dot mufunyo at mf (decipher address with your human skills)
Why the hell "Cum Fonts": Calling things that look nice words like "horny" is a bad personality trait of me. I'm a bad boy.