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	Technical Overview of ClearType Filtering
		ClearType is a method for improving the quality of fonts on displays that contain repeating patterns of colored sub-pixels.
		ClearType uses a model of the human visual system to define what "close" means.
		ClearType also can accept fonts that are rasterized at a higher resolution than the sub-pixel resolution (which yields fewer "jaggies").
	research.microsoft.com /~jplatt/cleartype (695 words)

	Amherst College Information Technology: Cleartype Overview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Cleartype is a new method of font smoothing found in Windows XP.
		We recommend Windows XP users to enable Cleartype, its ability to make text incredibly crisp makes it one of the more useful new features in XP.
		In the next page make sure the checkbox is checked so that Cleartype is enabled, then move on to Step 2.
	www.amherst.edu /it/software/xp/cleartype.html (142 words)

	ClearType Revealed
		With ClearType, the computer addresses each bar individually when anti-aliasing text, resulting in less blockiness and less blur, because the units used to build and smooth each letter are so much smaller.
		ClearType letters on a Jornada are crisp, clear and fl, and it works so well that HP has even provided a checkbox in the Screen Control Panel applet to enable ClearType system-wide, so you don't have to track down any registry hacks to do it yourself.
		ClearType functions very poorly with this arrangement as most of the resolution boost is lost between lines, and letters are smoothed in the wrong direction.
	www.writingonyourpalm.net /column011231.htm (925 words)

	Richard Leader: ClearType Font Smoothing Technology in Windows XP
		ClearType is an evolved form of the standard method of font smoothing which utilizes anti-aliasing.
		Cleartype also positions itself as a superior display method for flat liquid crystal displays (LCD) that notebooks are equipped with (though they are gaining ground in the desktop market as well) as they display images differently than conventional CRT monitors.
		ClearType is nearly perfect for users of LCD screens, of that there is little doubt; it is also generally a good solution for conventional monitor owners as well, because of the increased readability of small fonts--though it takes some time for most users to adapt to it (it can often seem blurry at first).
	www.richleader.com /cleartype.htm (1077 words)

	Get Clear with ClearType - Online Diary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		ClearType is a software technology developed by Microsoft that improves the readability of text on existing LCDs (Liquid Crystal Displays), such as laptop screens, Pocket PC screens and flat panel monitors.
		Before ClearType, the smallest level of detail that a computer could display was a single pixel, but with ClearType running on an LCD monitor, we can now display features of text as small as a fraction of a pixel in width.
		This tool add a “ClearType Tuning” applet in the Control panel and as the name suggests can be used to tune the ClearType settings such as Contrast, Gamma etc. There is a wizard which will help you in getting the best out of ClearType.
	www.venukb.com /blog/2006/07/14/get-clear-with-cleartype (416 words)

	How to Customize ClearType - Windows XP Tips and Tweaks on Tune XP
		ClearType may appear slightly blurry on standard desktop monitors and on some LCD displays.
		In rare cases, perceived blurriness is caused by a manufacturing anomaly on LCD displays in which the normal striping of red-green-blue is reversed with blue-green-red.
		This could be the problem in cases in which none of the ClearType contrast settings look good on a particular LCD display.
	www.tunexp.com /tips/maintain_your_computer/how_to_customize_cleartype (286 words)

	Using ClearType on Windows XP
		August 6, 2003 6:33 PM It's browntype not cleartype.
		ClearType is, for me, the main reason for upgrading to winXP and an LCD screen.
		November 17, 2005 9:17 PM In response to the comment about ClearType not working on small Japanese text, this is actually a very good idea.
	www.scottmanning.com /archives/000558.php (2145 words)

	(URW)++ ClearType
		ClearType is a new rendering technology developed by Microsoft for an even better screen readability of TrueType fonts.
		ClearType ignores the tables that control when the fonts are displayed fl and white respectively grey.
		That’s why ClearType is perfectly suited for LCD screens where a single pixel consists of three horizontally arranged coloured pixels.
	www.urwpp.de /english/fonttechnologie/cleartype_cont.html (287 words)

	fontblog : ClearType = Clear Mind
		ClearType works by making each word easier to recognize, and easier to recognize words results in faster sentence reading and improved comprehension.
		James: One of the ClearType design specs is that it works with certain RGB orderderings in the pixel components.
		What I'd like to see is a study of ClearType fans to determine whether they can tell the difference between CT and AA text on a variety of monitors.
	blogs.msdn.com /fontblog/archive/2005/12/13/503236.aspx (1966 words)

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		ClearType is a technology for displaying computer fonts so that they appear clear and smooth.
		ClearType makes on-screen text more detailed and, therefore, easier to read for long periods of time without experiencing eye strain and mental fatigue.
		ClearType was developed to make it possible to read on-screen text for longer periods of time.
	windowshelp.microsoft.com /Windows/en-US/Help/ee1b6ee7-6ab5-4036-9d58-fadcf54285931033.mspx (803 words)

	Microsoft's IE7 Ignores Windows Setting - Windows News by InformationWeek
		ClearType, which debuted with Windows XP, is designed to make text more readable on LCD screens.
		"The decision to turn ClearType on by default in IE is unusual," acknowledged Bill Hill, a Microsoft researcher, in a posting to the IE team's blog.
		ClearType can be disabled in IE 7 Beta 2 Preview via the Tools/Internet Options/Advanced dialog.
	www.informationweek.com /windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181501329 (445 words)

	InformationWeek.com
		There are at least three or four different sets of claimants who say ClearType is based on their own, earlier work, or on the work of others.
		With all the controversy surrounding ClearType, you can be sure that, if the reviewers of those technical papers find that Microsoft did not come up with a breakthrough in font display on flat-panel displays, the world will hear about it in fairly short order.
		The ClearType controversy aside, critics of Microsoft Research should consider the possibility that some very real innovation is and has been going in Microsoft's labs.
	www.informationweek.com /author/redmond24.htm (1280 words)

	Measuring the User Response to ClearType
		ClearType is a setting that is manipulated through the operating system of devices using
		Further results on our ClearType work will be published later this year in a comprehensive article.
		Formal version of Study 3 (pdf) - To be published in CHI 06 conference proceedings: Apr 22-27, 2006, Montreal, Quebec.
	www.ischool.utexas.edu /~ct (340 words)

	Microsoft Typography - Features of TrueType and OpenType
		Microsoft ClearType is an unprecedented innovation in font display technology that dramatically improves font display resolution and marks a genuine breakthrough in screen readability.
		This is a picture of ClearType under extreme magnification, with the sub-pixels of an LCD explicitly rendered to show the structure of the ClearType letterforms.
		ClearType officially announced during COMDEX/FALL '98 - press release.
	www.microsoft.com /typography/ClearTypeInfo.mspx (474 words)

	CNN - Microsoft banks on ClearType to spur electronic books - June 18, 1999
		Brass said he expects ClearType to be implemented systemwide, but expects the reader to either be part of the system or an application.
		He said one current drawback of the technology is that legacy applications and documents can look different on-screen, and Microsoft is currently working to make this less noticeable.
		ClearType works on the concept of delivering less color to gain resolution, and this philosophy conflicts with the way some applications now work, Brass said.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/computing/9906/18/cleartype.idg/index.html (618 words)

	BBPC News \| BuildOrBuy - ClearType Fonts
		According to Microsoft, "ClearType improves readability on color LCD monitors with a Digital Interface, such as those in Laptops and high-quality Flat Desktop Displays.
		ClearType information page - activating ClearType - ClearType news - ClearType FAQ
		ClearType Step 1 Turn on Windows XP ClearType: Activate and Tune your ClearType settings.
	www.buildorbuy.org /cleartype.html (102 words)

	ClearType Applet \| Improve your Pocket PC text rendering with ClearType technology
		ClearType Applet is a free Control Panel utility that helps to improve rendering of text and user interface elements on your Pocket PC.
		ClearType technology improves the perceived crispness and resolution of text by selectively turning on neghbouring RGB elements on the display.
		ClearType Applet lets you activate ClearType on any Pocket PC device, it provides immediate display of selected settings, and it embeds a soft-reset option to automatically reset the device after changing ClearType mode.
	www.cnetx.com /clearType (217 words)

	Re: Disable visually impairing ClearType in WPF? - MSDN Forums
		Anyway, Apps with ClearType turned OFF, I can see ridged edges of fonts displayed on my system, and to me, seeing fonts with ridged edges is a visual aid for my eyes that make me feel my eyes are in focus.
		With ClearType turned ON, fonts look “blurry”/"fuzzy"/"soft" and there is nothing my eyes can “hold on to” when focusing, and this is where I feel the discomfort using ClearType.
		ClearType simply sucks with vertical screen since the "resolution increase" is used in the wrong way.
	forums.microsoft.com /MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=995105&SiteID=1 (2507 words)

	XP Users: Turn on ClearType! - PaulStamatiou.com
		ClearType does not look too bad but I have gotten so used to Standard that ClearType is too much for me to handle right now.
		If your cleartype looks blurry, make sure your screen resolution is set to the adviced screen resolution for your monitor (just look at the specifications of your monitor).
		Cleartype is great… if you’ve got the graphics card horsepower to not slow down your system.
	paulstamatiou.com /2006/08/13/xp-users-turn-on-cleartype (2532 words)

	The Legibility of Two New ClearType Fonts
		These fonts are designed specifically to take advantage of Microsoft’s ClearType subpixel rendering technology that enhances text quality on LCD displays.
		To compare the new ClearType fonts to traditional fonts, we used an objective measure of legibility.
		In a recent near-accident, an air traffic controller was reported to misread character codes on his monitor and accidentally sent an aircraft to a wrong location (BBC News, 2002).
	psychology.wichita.edu /surl/usabilitynews/81/legibility.htm (1638 words)

	ClearType on TabletPCs
		The subpixels were just too big for my taste and the positive effect of subpixel rendering got lost for me. Now I've got a new 14inch notebook with a 1400x1050 resolution.
		ClearType actually looks fine enough on it for me to give it a try.
		The problem is that the new notebook is a TabletPC which means that as soon as I change the screens orientation, the subpixels are in the wrong order and ClearType looks bad.
	channel9.msdn.com /ShowPost.aspx?PostID=208248 (350 words)

	ClearType Antialiasing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Microsoft ClearType antialiasing is a smoothing method that improves font display resolution over traditional antialiasing.
		However, ClearType is dependent on the orientation and ordering of the LCD stripes.
		This occurs because a character that is smoothed with ClearType may have a negative A or C width where the regular character has a positive A or C width.
	msdn.microsoft.com /library/en-us/gdi/fontext_0xgn.asp?frame=true (553 words)

	Dean - Post details: Disabling ClearType in Reading Layout View (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		It seems strange, but some people apparently find ClearType is easier to read on a CRT -- not me, however, and that's why I have it turned off in the rest of the Operating System.
		I think the reason they turn ClearType on in Reading Layout View is because not a lot of people know about the ClearType setting to begin with.
		The problem is that the UI to set the "ClearType" setting in the OS is buried so deep in the Display Options that most people aren't going to just "stumble" on it.
	codeka.com /blogs/index.php/dean/2005/04/05/disabling_cleartype_in_reading_layout_vi (810 words)

	HOW TO: Use ClearType to Enhance Screen Fonts in Windows XP
		HOW TO: Use ClearType to Enhance Screen Fonts in Windows XP Quick Links
		You can adjust the contrast setting for ClearType for your personal preference.
		In those cases, it may be best to turn off ClearType.
	support.microsoft.com /kb/306527 (338 words)

	IEBlog : ClearType Text in IE7
		Similarly, you can't really grab a bitmap with ClearType enabled, because you not only miss part of it, but it will not look as intended on the user's system (the user may have CD enabled or not, but in any case it will be CT based on the local display).
		Cleartype is really just a simulation of a substandard monitor running at the wrong resolution under the demented concept that it should IMPROVE readability somehow.
		Cleartype is clearly meant for LCD monitors, it uses subpixel antialiasing, while for CRT monitors you should use normal antialiasing to smooth edges.
	blogs.msdn.com /ie/archive/2006/02/03/524367.aspx (10666 words)

	QuickType - ClearType Toggle - Download Squad
		Head to Microsoft's ClearType Tuner web page to see what it's all about, and try it for yourself.
		It also gives you a shortcut to a local version of the ClearType Tuner if you have it installed (get it here), so that if you're like me and you move around from monitor to monitor, you can quickly tune your display.
		Posted at 12:30PM on Nov 27th 2006 by RP I would like to know what are those 2% of the times when you like to switch off Cleartype.
	www.downloadsquad.com /2006/11/27/quicktype-cleartype-toggle (1001 words)

	Jeff Atwood : ClearType: Love It or Leave It
		ClearType: Love It or Leave It Vista will have ClearType on by default.
		ClearType is most effective when the text in question is fl on white or white on fl.
		ClearType is particularly effective on small fonts, but not so much on large fonts.
	blogs.vertigosoftware.com /jatwood/archive/2006/08/04/3245.aspx (537 words)

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