How to keep my Windows 10 screen fonts blurry?
December 27, 2016 2:56 PM   Subscribe

I dislike how Win 10 renders fonts in apps -- especially in Word 2016. It's too sharp and contrasty for me. But I've found that if I change the scaling of text, apps and other items (Settings/System/Display) from, say, 100% to 125% or 125% to 100% (any change will do), then fonts assume a blurry, slightly smudged appearance that I like and find much easier on the eye. However, the effect is lost when I reboot. How can I make the effect permanent without changing the scaling every time I boot?

- I'm running Windows 10 on a Lenovo z50 with a 1920x1080 full HD display.
- I have Cleartype on and tuned.
- I know some people find Windows 10 fonts too blurry and that there are various fixes for this. I've tried some of these, but they don't do what I want. I suspect I'm trying to recreate the very effect they are meant to remove! (I guess I'm odd - - it may be something to do with my astigmatism.)
- I've tried to recreate the effect with MacType but (unlike changing the scaling) it has no effect on how fonts are rendered in apps.
posted by kitfreeman to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)
 
So, this doesn't fix your problem, but the explanation for the behavior you're seeing is that the changes for display scaling aren't universally applied until after you log out, so what you're seeing is that in-between inconsistent state that isn't how display scaling is intended to run.

The only thing I can think of to force Windows 10 to display things in a blurry way is to force it to use a lower resolution to display everything in.
posted by Aleyn at 7:45 PM on December 27, 2016


Did you try disabling ClearText in Control Panel ->Display->Adjust ClearText?
posted by theobserver at 8:44 PM on December 27, 2016


Response by poster: Thanks both. I've tried fiddling with the resolution and with cleartext, but I couldn't achieve what I want. I suspect Aleyn is right that the effect I like is an inconsistent state -- in which case there's probably no way to make it permanent.
posted by kitfreeman at 10:28 AM on December 31, 2016


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