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
    2015-01-29T03:03:42+00:00

    Hi,

    I can certainly understand your concern and would like to know the model number of the ACER computer. I would also like to inform you that this is an issue with the display card driver.

    However, you can also try suggestions provided by****Praseetha K Nair replied on January 29, 2014. The Microsoft Link is mentioned below:

    http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8\_1-windows\_install/windows-81-and-blurry-text/c45266e5-4fa9-46ab-bbb4-43725b25c629

    Please let us know if it worked.

    Here we go again.

    Another denial of the problem by a Microsoft Support engineer.

    If you read this properly you would see it has absolutely nothing to do with display card drivers.

    No wonder the blurry text problem hasn't been fixed.

    On a corporate level, Microsoft have convinced themselves the problem doesn't exist. 

    The very future of Internet Explorer and MS Office is at stake here. Continuing to deny there is a problem with the grayscale font rendering API used by IE and Office 2013 is unbelievably foolish.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-01-28T19:57:53+00:00

    Haha, Joshua, I still think you're misunderstanding me.  I'll stray from that to stay on topic.

    I agree with what you said at the end.  Microsoft, hear this:  "The source of the problem is neither metro nor IE honor the system settings for font rendering."  It's not our monitors or our drivers.  This is a Windows bug, and Microsoft should step up and take responsibility.  For those of you in the Windows Insider program, file a bug report in the "Feedback" application.  I did.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-01-28T18:54:22+00:00

    There is no misunderstanding. The source of the problem is neither metro nor IE honor the system settings for font rendering.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-01-28T18:09:06+00:00

    I think there's a misunderstanding here.  You said, "A certain percentage of people are affected.  The only fix is to honor the system setting for font rendering."  I don't believe "metro" applications ever honor the system setting, do they?  So all users are affected by "metro" applications disobeying the setting.  I realize not everyone loves ClearType.  But if I ask for it, I want "metro" to obey it, and I don't think it ever does.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-01-28T17:39:42+00:00

    > Is this percentage not 100%?

    It is not. Some differences in vision processing in the mind is a likely controlling variable.

    In particular, you read best with ClearType on, but I see obnoxious color fringes and must turn it off. I must also turn off all anti-aliasing and insist on bi-level rendering to avoid straining my eyes trying to focus what is blurry by nature.

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