Smooth Font

[theuedimaster]

All my text looks sort of blocky and "not" smooth. Do you know any smooth fonts?

[PeOfEo]

as in roundier letters? Persaonlly I really like arial and verdana. They are both common buy I like them a lot.

[theuedimaster]

yeah, "roundier".Thats the word I was looking for. I don't like how the curves can get real pixly some times. Don't know if you know what I mean.

[PeOfEo]

All I know is I use anti alias for text on images to keep that from happening.

[Paul Jr]

Apart from making the text an image, there isn't much you can do. Users can "smooth" the fonts themselves via their OS (at least I can in XP Home; RC Desktop -> Properties -> Appearance -> Effects) if they wish.

[theuedimaster]

Yea, anti-aliasing text in images is something i've done for some time...but going with system text is that much easier to update, and that much easier for accesibility for the user.

[davidbrent]

you need to do this on Internet Exploroer but it effects the whole OS for Windows (Not sure the versions covered)

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/1.htm

[theuedimaster]

thats sweet man :)

[davidbrent]

no probs!