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
    2015-04-09T20:15:27+00:00

    I think tey will never fix it :(

    Now, in 2015, and with Windows 10, it is still the same.

    Some say, it is becasuse conventional cleartype (color mixed font antialiasing) cannot be used on rotated displays, like tablets, etc...

    But, I do not have a tablet!

    On the other hand, I had an android tablet, with 10" display, 1024x768 resolution, the fonts were antialiased, and it never looked so blurry.

    This blurry, unreadable text is literally hurting my eyes.

    Maybe on higher resoltion displays (for example 15", 4K display notebooks) it is ok, it is not visible, but I have a 23" LCD display, and I think most of us are using similar displays.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-02-01T22:57:56+00:00

    You can see this, Dr Geek can see this, Tzon can, even I can see this.

    Obviously everyone who works at Microsoft has super special magic eyes. Or perhaps they have hardware designed to look at its best with Metro rendering, so they just don't get it.

    Truly it is a shame these Microsoft people never learned to read, despite the super high definition displays they can gaze at. Because perhaps all the 48 pages of contributors to to this thread, and those to many other threads here and many, many forum posts elsewhere, really are onto something.

    I wonder why Apple have just declared the biggest returns in corporate history? Perhaps they listen to their customers. That is why their products just work. I have never noticed a bad display on any Apple product. Sometimes they are breathtaking.

    Sadly, Microsoft's response to this plainly very widespread issue is breathtaking too, but not in a nice way.

    Dear Microsoft, please can you just give us, your customers, the option to use Cleartype rendering in IE11 and Office 2013, and Metro and Moderns apps, and Windows 10 and Office 2016. It may not be as good as you want it to be, but a lot of us in the real world like it because it really, truly looks better on our PC's.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-02-01T22:44:24+00:00

    The sad truth seems to be (and just look at how Windows 10 is shaping up), 48 pages into this thread,

    that Microsoft does not give a flying ferret!

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-01-31T18:34:59+00:00

    Just wonder, how does the font rendering look like on the Microsoft's Surface Pro?

    FWIW in my case, the problem has never been on the Tablet side, only on the attached monitor side.

    Have you tried using a Zoom or scaling change to help change the symptom?  FWIW I am still using 112% in my IE tabs.  And I think I am using some of the Change only the text size options in the Display dialog but don't know how to find out for sure.

    Related to this, does anyone know why MS stopped allowing us to use Intel's HD Graphics tool?  I keep imagining that there are useful tweaks in it but now can not test that recollection.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-01-31T06:19:28+00:00

    About 5,000 Windows 10 users, including myself, have complained about this already.

    In response, Microsoft's silence has been deafening.

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