In Chrome 37.x go to chrome://flags and disable DirectWrite. That's the first thing i did with this update.
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Blurry Text in Windows 8
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I did a clean install of Windows 8 RTM when it became available.
The blurry font rendering that plagued the Preview versions has remained.
It is particularly bad in IE10 and Office 2013.
No amount of adjustment with Clear Type tuner helps much.
I have tried all the fixes recommended like ticking "use Software rendering instead of GPU rendering" in IE10 and in Options in Office 2013.
It makes absolutely no difference.
I installed Windows 8 on completely different hardware to check if it was a graphics card issue. The poor font rendering was still there.
I am currently dual booting Windows 7 and 8 on the same PC. Fonts in Windows 7 remain perfectly clear. In windows 8 they are so bad, the OS is basically unusable.
How do I get readable fonts in Windows 8?
Hardware: ASUS P8Z77-V PRO, Intel Core i7 3770K, ASUS Radeon HD7770 graphics, Samsung Syncmaster 2443BW 24 inch monitor.
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Anonymous
2013-04-26T14:29:21+00:00 It only works on software that doesn't use directwrite. Ie 10, office 2013, and metro use directwrite, so it can't fix those.
How Microsoft can not respond to an issue that affects the day to day use of their two top software revenue generators (office and windows) is beyond me. This SINGLE THING keeps me from buying or recommending office 2013.
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Anonymous
2013-04-25T06:13:54+00:00 This has previously been suggested on another thread.
I tried Mactype on Windows 8 a while back.
I could see the program's intent but could not get consistent results with its font rendering.
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Anonymous
2013-04-18T13:04:44+00:00 Okay so I had this problem also. If your computer is running with an AMD graphics card then go to this site. http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/downloads.aspx Choose your driver type and OS. You will have three options on the next page to download. Just download all three. After I did so I haven't had blurry text at all. Now every once in a while as you update your PC you will also need to go back to this page and re-download the three options. Remember, I'm running an AMD A10 processor and an AMD 7660 graphics card. I do not know or believe this will help you if you have an Intel.