From: Gary Britt 

For me so far everything looks better with cleartype turned on and the
tuner setting at 1.1.

Its definitely better than turned off on my stuff.

Gary

Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
> It's weird stuff, I've played with ClearType for a while now, and the
> problem I have is *some* text looks better with CT turned on, but then some
> other text looks like crap. I just went through this tuner, and the samples
> were pretty good - but then I got back to OE to continue reading the
> messages, and the fonts in OE look *really* bad :-(     Again, I'm turning
> it off...
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
> (running at 1600*1200)
>
> "Frank Haber"  wrote in message
> news:459c1dac{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> MS Tuner Widget
>> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/Step1.aspx
>>
>> I always have better luck with the PowerToy local version - download link
>> buried in the text on that page - in reality.....
>>
>> http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypePowerToy.mspx
>>
>> (Full Disclosure: Be sure ClearType is on in
>> DisplayProperties|appearance|effects.  These widgets are supposed to turn
>> it on, but you know how that goes.  And If your screen is 10x7 or coarser,
>> or you're on your fifth beer, you might prefer NO smoothing.  And If you
>> still use a CRT, forget all the above.)
>>
>> (I always get better results if I make a semi-snap decision, and adjust
>> QUICKLY.  Repeat the run, if you're unsure. For maximum psychometric
>> accuracy, repeat when eyes tired or six-pack empty.)
>
>

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