There are a ton of people out there who don't like ClearType, but like traditional smoothing, and there just isn't a viable option for us at this point. So why Microsoft would force this on us is beyond me. And I know from spending a few days googling this issue and trying to figure out a solution, that there are a lot of people in a similar situation.
NET Framework 4.0 but we'll see.Īnyways, I don't know why I'm posting this, I know there isn't a solution other than the one I described.
I think there's a high probability the latter will happen actually - I'm pretty sure I read something about a significant improvement in smoothing coming with the final version of.
#Segoe ui font not displayed chrome windows 7#
The Windows 7 calculator, for instance, does not agree with it, so I've been using Windows XP's calc.exe on Windows 7.īut at this point there is no other solution, so I'm just gonna live with it until one of two things happen - Microsoft gives us the option to change the system font to Tahoma 8pt or another font that does not look horrible without ClearType, which is about 1% likely to happen, or until the regular smoothing gets improved to be able to handle non-ClearTyped Segoe UI and make it look good. And even though it is 8pt, it's just not the intended system font for the OS, so every now and then there are irregularities. fon font so it's impervious to ALL smoothing - so whenever I'm online and there is something written in larger Segoe UI or wherever 9pt+ of it is present in the system, Windows defaults to MS Sans Serif the larger sizes of which look really bad un-smoothed. The problem though is that MS Sans Serif is a. So I'm thinking I finally solved this - it doesn't look nearly as well as Tahoma 8pt, but at this point I'm fine with that. That's my only option really - all the other fonts look too ridiculous and/or are too big at 9pt. So I end up changing it to MS Sans Serif which is a system font that does not have a 9pt size, so it defaults to 8pt and it looks somewhat normal. So, after doing that all Segoe UI becomes Tahoma 9pt, which is significantly larger than Tahoma 8pt and that not only looks bad but it messes up a lot of applications where the text cannot fit in well. However, the default system font is Segoe UI 9pt and while you can change the font itself, you cannot change the size. Ideally that would be Tahoma 8pt, which is XP's and 7's Classic theme default font. So my last resort is to go into the registry and replace all Segoe UI fonts with something else. I can eliminate more of it by switching to the Classic theme, which I have, and that takes care of about 70% of it maybe but it's still in a LOT of places. But that hardly changes half the text out there, Segoe UI is still everywhere. I can change all the fonts to Tahoma 8pt from Personalize -> Window Color -> Advanced Appearance Settings. My only other option is to try to eliminate Segoe UI. I love the XP-style smoothing that was carried over to Vista and 7, it works and makes things look good unlike ClearType which adds additional colors. So what options do I have? I can turn off all smoothing, but that just makes things worse - Segoe UI looks horrible, like a 1980s video game font, and now everything else that is bold or larger size looks rough and pixelated too. So I turn it off and ironically now Segoe UI is the only font that looks absolutely horrible, because it was obviously created FOR ClearType - it's very, very rough without it and the standard Windows smoothing makes it look overly fuzzy and blurry. ClearType really doesn't agree with my eyes, it's not an option for me to have it enabled - the only font that it actually makes look good is Segoe UI.
Well, I think it's fair to say that Microsoft has put those of us who aren't fans of ClearType in quite a situation, and the key to that is Segoe UI.