{"id":304,"date":"2007-07-07T21:47:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-08T02:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/07\/efficiency-tip-74-enable-cleartype\/"},"modified":"2015-05-14T09:12:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:12:53","slug":"efficiency-tip-74-enable-cleartype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/07\/efficiency-tip-74-enable-cleartype\/","title":{"rendered":"Efficiency Tip #74 &#8211; Enable ClearType"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows XP has a nice feature called <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ClearType\">ClearType<\/a> that is disabled by default.\u00a0 Your screen can look a lot more clear if you turn this feature on&#8230; especially if you have an LCD panel display.<\/p>\n<p>ClearType uses anti-aliasing to make curved parts of letters look smoother.\u00a0 This makes them easier to read.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two pictures &#8211; one with anti-aliasing (top) and one without (bottom).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/homepages.findlay.edu\/trusty\/565\/graphics\/uf_anti.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/homepages.findlay.edu\/trusty\/565\/graphics\/uf_antinone.gif\" height=\"225\" style=\"width: 266px; height: 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The top picture is easier to read because of the anti-aliasing.\u00a0 ClearType does this same thing, but with text on\u00a0your screen.<\/p>\n<p>To turn\u00a0ClearType on, right-click a blank part of the desktop and select Properties.\u00a0 Click the Appearance tab and then click the Effects button.\u00a0 There should be a check-box for &#8220;use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts.&#8221;\u00a0 That is where you will find ClearType.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windows XP has a nice feature called ClearType that is disabled by default.\u00a0 Your screen can look a lot more clear if you turn this feature on&#8230; especially if you have an LCD panel display. ClearType uses anti-aliasing to make &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/07\/07\/efficiency-tip-74-enable-cleartype\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[336,338],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","category-efficiency","tag-edtech","tag-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}