Poor font rendering in Windows 8 (blurry text)

Seriously, you don't think folks havent tried that and more to try to get decent readable text? People haven't been writing in this forum topic because they never learned how to use the cleartype tool.

 

Thanks for the detailed explanation, but it's mostly sound and fury. Basically, you're saying they tried to make text better; it was a hard job; it's often the user's problem (fault?) and user's can adjust text appearance so it's okay.

 

I guess at the end what we want to say is, "We figured all that, what we want to know is how MS mucked it up and then released it mucked up and when will it fix it?"

 

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During Windows 8 development, our engineers and researchers looked at where the industry was heading, and the important challenges we’d need to address in the future. There were several data points that needed to be addressed; lower powered devices that have trouble keeping up with modern graphics, a wide variety of display types that vary in size, orientation and pixel density, and finally a richer array of web authoring techniques that push the boundaries of web and graphics capabilities.

 

In order to deliver in all these areas, a new grayscale text rendering mode was added to the ClearType family. This new ClearType rendering mode gives applications the ability to enhance the performance of text especially for rich web scenarios, keeping the experience fast and fluid. In developing these new ClearType text modes, engineers and researchers improved the default tunings for these new modes, and updated a number of inbox fonts to ensure they look great in these new modes as well. Our older, color-based ClearType modes still exist for use on Windows, as you can see in a number of applications; but they work better for a different set of apps with a different set of goals around performance and the display ecosystem they run on.

 

With all of this said, every person experiences text differently, and with a wide variety of displays it becomes necessary to tune the text for each person and their preferences. In order to easily allow customers to tailor these new ClearType modes, Windows 8 includes an updated ClearType tuner. The changes introduced in this new version allow users to tune these text modes to work better in conjunction with their visual system, display attributes, and personal preferences. In order to run the updated ClearType tuner, press WIN+Q and type “ClearType Tuner” in the search box. Then select “settings” below it. Then select the result that says “Adjust ClearType Text.”

During Windows 8 development, our engineers and researchers looked at where the industry was heading, and the important challenges we’d need to address in the future. There were several data points that needed to be addressed; lower powered devices that have trouble keeping up with modern graphics, a wide variety of display types that vary in size, orientation and pixel density, and finally a richer array of web authoring techniques that push the boundaries of web and graphics capabilities.

In order to deliver in all these areas, a new grayscale text rendering mode was added to the ClearType family. This new ClearType rendering mode gives applications the ability to enhance the performance of text especially for rich web scenarios, keeping the experience fast and fluid. In developing these new ClearType text modes, engineers and researchers improved the default tunings for these new modes, and updated a number of inbox fonts to ensure they look great in these new modes as well. Our older, color-based ClearType modes still exist for use on Windows, as you can see in a number of applications; but they work better for a different set of apps with a different set of goals around performance and the display ecosystem they run on.

With all of this said, every person experiences text differently, and with a wide variety of displays it becomes necessary to tune the text for each person and their preferences. In order to easily allow customers to tailor these new ClearType modes, Windows 8 includes an updated ClearType tuner. The changes introduced in this new version allow users to tune these text modes to work better in conjunction with their visual system, display attributes, and personal preferences. In order to run the updated ClearType tuner, press WIN+Q and type “ClearType Tuner” in the search box. Then select “settings” below it. Then select the result that says “Adjust ClearType Text.”

I wholeheartedly agree: it is the biggest screw-up Microsoft has ever done. I now think about Vista and it's starting to feel like an excellent OS. Isn't there ANYWHERE an official response from Microsoft on this?

Same problem here, And it really seemed to be a problem with the way the antialiasing is done (as mentioned before).

As you can see in provided image:

Maybe you cannot see it clearly, but when you see a whole page like this, you'll definitly see it, it really looks bad where it looked good in windows 7..

I already disliked Windows 8 for a lot of reasons, but this really is one of the biggest screw-up MS has  done to the OS, it just looks ugly compared to Windows 7. Why not let people just select what kind of aliasing is used. Maybe it's able to get the same settings as in Windows 7 when you go through the cleartype wizard, but I don't really see any difference in the wizard, I'd rather just be able to actually do settings which I can compare to windows 7..

I tried your suggestion.

Yes, I can set IE to display in whatever font, but no matter which font I choose, the text is still blurry.

This is not a solution.