Fonts and antialiasing

why do some atialias and some dont?

Published on February 11, 2007 By I.R. Brainiac In Skinning

With some fonts(like Tahoma),no matter how I set the antialias feature in Skinstudio,theywont antialias.

Other fonts will...whats the secret?

My system is using standard font smoothing because I use a crt.

Comments (Page 2)

I.R. Brainiac

on Feb 14, 2007

yeah John,I found a great one on ...OptimaNova bold SC.

Very readable and looks good at many different point sizes.

thomassen

on Feb 14, 2007

I'm not sure if it's actually Arial or MS Sans Serif or something else like that, but here's a screenie

Yes, That is MS Sans Serif and will not anti-alias since it's not a TrueType or OpenType font. It's annoying that these legacy fonts are still used these days. I think I found a little hack somewhere which forced Windows to use replacement fonts for these types of fonts. It should be somewhere in my pile of bookmarks. ...which there was a good bookmark manager...

Bebi Bulma

on Feb 14, 2007

I thought I had changed it in the registry somewhere, but I guess it didn't get everything. Now I can't remember how I did it.

vStyler

on Feb 14, 2007

thomassenFebruary 14, 2007 17:57:50Reply #17

which there was a good bookmark manager...

Have you tried post-its?

thomassen

on Feb 15, 2007

Evil post-it notes! Evil! Always telling you to remember to do something... grrr...

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