Poor font rendering in Windows 8 (blurry text)

Anonymous
2013-02-24T00:17:00+00:00

Apparently there is a huge problem with **** font rendering in Windows 8. Text appears very blurry. Programs affected by the new rendering are: Internet Explorer 10, the modern interface (start screen), Office 2013 and other 3rd party applications that rely on this rendering technology. There is no way to fix this problem, unless Microsoft recognizes it.

I 've gathered links bellow that refer to the same problem to highlight its importance and display the number of users that are affected:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/windows-8-blurryfuzzy-text-and-icons-on-menu-not/ef8945ff-9920-47b2-b4ec-db1c5fbab7de

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/windows-8-fonts-in-metro-ui-and-ie-10-blurry/3c29c415-54fd-44c8-b290-1c01dd05beaf

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/font-are-blurry-in-internet-explorer-10-windows-8/95fba606-5f45-43fa-bd96-413f6d9d9ad6

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/after-upgrading-to-windows-8-pro-my-fonts-in/210e46c9-4d16-4de7-8b59-2a1b0a7c738a

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/internet-explorer-10-windows-8-font-rendering-blur/f3b33400-bb95-450c-9587-68adbf298a2f

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_cp-winapps/blurry-text-windows-8/576183c0-e5e2-4916-8283-0a193d633018

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-hardware/blurry-text-problem/d07ac513-de07-49d9-8718-7fbb6d07b634

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10-windows_8/windows-8-browsers-font-rendering-issue-blocky/86139808-9c3f-48d9-bfa8-61afebd5761c

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10_cp-windows_cp/windows-8-preview-release-blurry-font-rendering/668f454e-012f-498f-a086-b550a96d47e1

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/horrible-windows-8-font-rendering/cc263629-f4c8-4653-af36-435f4e6b7d38

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_other-desktop/will-windows-8-have-better-fonts-or-at-least/ad35ce7b-45a9-44b4-83d9-aae34df8dd97

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/fonts-are-suddenly-ugly-why/ba024dcc-c143-4ede-8f04-27930527c5be

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie10_cp-windows_cp/installation-of-windows-8-cp-causes-blurred-fonts/75352b20-cb08-4312-b7f3-6c38bb5f5f0a

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-desktop/monitor-fonts-windows-8-fuzzy-and-no-longer-crisp/052e7a57-79a7-49c5-93dc-bffb01969cbd

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie9-windows_vista/some-fonts-are-fuzzy-and-thicker-in-ie9-in/47f1846f-7817-464b-8121-d1ca02dbb71d

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/blurry-text-in-windows-8/ed053d17-b525-4e09-bdbc-de91114d975c

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_8-performance/windows-8-has-made-my-text-blurry/7e9977e0-335f-4e8b-b321-eb2d156f36c1

Microsoft MSDN/TECHNET

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winappsuidesign/thread/4ddc57e1-de74-4044-940e-76e35a3e76b9

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-ZA/w8itprogeneral/thread/034ef255-40d5-41d5-9c58-841868326832

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/br/w8itprogeneral/thread/831ee84b-95a1-437a-b051-b7d51e13ba0f

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprogeneral/thread/d9c1ce96-58aa-401f-a5f4-1c62660077ca

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/W8ITProPreRel/thread/409d4e85-1124-4e1c-9cc0-3b2acfd519dd

External forums:

http://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/1120890-internet-explorer-10-fonts-fuzzy-in-windows-8/

http://www.eightforums.com/browsers-mail/5432-blurry-text-ie10-desktop.html

http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f56/blurry-website-fonts-in-ie10-675564.html

http://www.techplex.net/postst78315_Text-in-Internet-Explorer-10-and-Metro-UI-is-blurry.aspx

http://superuser.com/questions/506192/disable-cleartype-blurry-fonts-in-internet-explorer-10-on-windows-7

http://bugsort.com/computer-users/computer-unclear-type-in-internet-explorer-on-windows-8/?PHPSESSID=10368ff87086c902a678043f63e39762

and there are lots of more...

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-10-11T03:23:10+00:00

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-10-09T21:50:54+00:00

    It is odd how it affect different users in different ways.

    My desktop looks fine, but my IE 11 web pages and Office 2013 documents, spreadsheets and Outlook emails look dreadfully blurry.

    Check which version of Windows 8 or 8.1 you have.

    If you have Windows Pro version, you may be able to downgrade to Windows 7.

    This article has the details:

    http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2832566

    Please note that if your main problem with blurry text is in Office 2013, you need to downgrade to Office 2010, which looks fine on Windows 8.1.  

    Was just the standard Windows 8 version that came with PC, so not PRO, unfortunate as would definitely have downgraded. I have a Windows 7 from my old PC but unfortunately it's 32 bit.

    My Internet Explorer looks terrible, the desktop is bad, but IE significantly worse. Almost unreadable. Hence why I use another browser...still not sharp but 10X better than IE.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-10-08T09:01:17+00:00

    I heard "windows insider" program allow people to report problems directly to developers, does anyone report our font problem?

    I did (Personalization and Ease of Access -> Display resolution, DPI, and auto rotation). 2 "Me Too"s so far...

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-10-08T05:39:04+00:00

    It is odd how it affect different users in different ways.

    My desktop looks fine, but my IE 11 web pages and Office 2013 documents, spreadsheets and Outlook emails look dreadfully blurry.

    Check which version of Windows 8 or 8.1 you have.

    If you have Windows Pro version, you may be able to downgrade to Windows 7.

    This article has the details:

    http://support2.microsoft.com/kb/2832566

    Please note that if your main problem with blurry text is in Office 2013, you need to downgrade to Office 2010, which looks fine on Windows 8.1.

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-10-07T09:16:01+00:00

    Early last year I purchased a laptop with win 8 installed, and it had this poor looking font issue, though due to the smaller screen it wasn't that bad after a scaling adjustment.

    Anyway, 18 months on, I needed a new decent desktop PC. So I went and spent almost $3K on a new PC. The retailer gave me an option of Win 7 or Win 8.1.

    Thinking they SURELY would have fixed the issue in the 18 months since I purchased the laptop, I went with windows 8.1.

    Got the system home, turned it on....and OH  NO, terrible looking desktop font, and even worse on a 23in display. And adjusting the scaling like I did with the laptop barely improved matters.

    What the heck...I now have an awesome system, but with terrible looking desktop.  

    Furious! And regretting my decision not to go the Windows 7 option.

    How can they not fix such an important issue???

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