Customise+your+Type+face

Customise your Type face

Do you ever find that the characters on your screen are difficult to read, are they either not dark enough or a little fuzzy? Well, fortunately there is something that you can do about it and better still it is Free.

Browse to the [|__Microsoft PowerToys site__] [] and click on the ClearType Tuner PowerToy download. Look to the bottom right-hand

Once it has downloaded, click on Setup and let Windows install it automatically for you.

The final installation screen appears. Just make sure you tick the “Launch the program” box before you finish.

Now another window opens

You will notice there are two tabs at the top:- Introduction and Advanced. To deal first with the Introduction The first thing to do is make sure the box "Turn on Clear Type" is selected.

Then click on Start Wizard this will assist you through the rest of the process.

Another window will open.

Have a look at the two samples displayed there and click on the one that looks the nicest to you and then click Next.

Again another window opens where you will now see that you can fine tune that a little more with this screen where you have six choices. Again, choose the one you like best and click Next.

On the next window you will see the final result previewed for you. If you like it, click Finished. If you don’t, click Back and select another option from the previous screen.

It is so simple

Now, to deal with the Advanced tab. This enables you to accomplish some even finer fine tuning.

Study the window and you will see you have four actions which you may like to take. Those are:-

Enable Font Smoothing – Use this to get rid of the jagged edges on fonts.

Apply all the settings to the defaults for new users or a new system. In other words, do you want to keep these changes for everyone who uses the computer and for any messages that Windows gives you?

Set Sample Font – Maybe the font that has been used to show you the options is not the one you regularly use. Well, you can change it here (click on the button to get the font selection) and select what you like.

Clear Type Contrast Settings – Anything you want between dark and light can be set here. Work your way to the "perfect" display for yourself.

Now, if you are not satisfied with the results I would comment that you are very hard to please.

