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Better font rendering for Windows.

15 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 2 stories, 13 comments · first 2018-07-07 · latest 2026-01-10

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  1. Others can fix it too and they have. See: https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype https://github.com/CoolOppo/GDI-PlusPlus I use MacType and it works really well. You can tune many more things than with ClearType.
    comment by vlabakje90 · 2026-01-10 · in OLED, Not for Me
  2. …artifacts even with grayscale AA. You can compensate for this by masking those missing components. https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/issues/932
    comment by tadfisher · 2025-03-19 · in Memory safety for web fonts
  3. …still learning about this topic, so please let me know if I'm mistaken about any points here. [1] https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype [2] https://github.com/bp2008/BetterClearTypeTuner [3] https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/255…
    comment by SquareWheel · 2025-03-19 · in Memory safety for web fonts
  4. …out how relevant the FreeType backend is to this most recent work. This is great work btw. [0]: https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/issues/932 [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/issues/25595 [2]:…
    comment by boomskats · 2024-03-07 · in Fractional scales, fonts and hinting
  5. …your signal format and refresh rate, by pressing the green button on the remote 7-8 times. [0]: https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/issues/720 [1]: https://www.rtings.com/tv/learn/chroma-subsampling
    comment by boomskats · 2024-02-28 · in HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought by AMD
  6. …DirectWrite can cause different applications to perform text rendering differently from each other: https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/wiki/DirectWrite-vs-GD...
    comment by ziml77 · 2023-06-26 · in Text rendering hates you (2019)
  7. …text drawing calls, and does its own drawing instead. There are some hints how it works here https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/wiki/Secure-Boot I played around with this back when I used Windows, maybe 5 years ago (so my opinion may be…
    comment by rom-antics · 2023-02-07 · in MacType: Better font rendering for Windows
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    MacType: Better font rendering for Windows
    story by popcalc · 2023-02-07 · 71 comments
  9. …behaviors as per demands (and I think this is why the README does not include screenshots). [0] https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/issues/557 [1] https://github.com/chawyehsu/mactype-profile#screenshots
    comment by chawyehsu · 2021-08-02 · in MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows
  10. …that hooks into apps to intercept calls to DirectWrite and GDI and might break the entire OS. [0] https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/issues/557
    comment by csnover · 2021-08-01 · in MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows
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    MacType: Better Font Rendering for Windows
    story by tinbucket · 2021-08-01 · 124 comments
  12. …sure about the history forking thing but there may be some Firefox extension to help with that. [0] https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/issues/673 [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652141
    comment by greatquux · 2021-05-13 · in Vue 3 drops IE11 support plan
  13. You might want to check out MacType https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype/wiki/Google-Chrome
    comment by jahewson · 2020-09-04 · in Show HN: Skia-canvas, a browserless implementation of the Canvas API for Node.js
  14. I recently made the switch from Mac to Windows and have been using MacType - https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype to ease the transition.
    comment by michaelbuckbee · 2020-08-08 · in Ask HN: What feature did you find after years of using macOS?
  15. Yeah but Windows has https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype
    comment by no_identd · 2018-07-07 · in MacOS Mojave removes subpixel anti-aliasing, making non-retina displays blurry