Showing posts with label ie9. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ie9. Show all posts

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Hacking IE9's font smoothing

If you have been following my blog for a bit, you know I am quite set on my web browser's content readability.  Well, it happened again with Internet Explorer 9 and this time, my font of choice was there but it was rendered with ClearType even though I turned it off with the ClearType Text Tuner:ClearType Text Tuner is clearly off

See?  It's clearly off, but noooo, someone's feeling waaaay too important to follow the operating system's settings.

Anyway, after a Wednesday afternoon of mad hacking (followed by a Saturday afternoon of fixing and cleaning), the result is the DWrite.dll wrapper, which is available for free download.

I just hope this doesn't turn into a game of walls and ladders.