Thread: Why the fonts are distorting on my screen like this

Please take a look at the screenshots below, the curves or rounds of the fonts are not showing smooth on my screen, they are distorted or pixelated.



See the O in the image below





Can anyone please tell me why it is appearing like this? It used to appear fine before

It may be something to do with cleartype which is a feature of windows, try seeing if cleartype has turned off ?

Originally Posted by CompuSupport

It may be something to do with cleartype which is a feature of windows, try seeing if cleartype has turned off ?

Where can I find that "Cleartype" option?

I have never heard about this thing before.

Are you running Vista or XP?

I am using Windows XP.

Ok, I searched for ClearType and found it. But it is not what I was looking for.

I don't like this way of making the text smooth, This is making the fonts dull.

Is there any other way??

Okay in XP to the best of my knowlege if you right click anywhere on the desktop and click properties. Click on the first tab which should be appearance and and then click effects. This should then bring up an option to activate or deactivate clear type I think it says something like "Use the following method to smooth edge of screen fonts" and the options are standard and clear type I think.

Hope this maybe helps

Great

I fixed it from there. Now it is looking good.

Thank you soooooooo much.