Blurry fonts when normal text scale in Windows

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danielt
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Blurry fonts when normal text scale in Windows

Post by danielt »

Hi,

The UI text looks blurry when displayed on my 22 inch Eizo 1920x1200. The text size in Windows is set to 100% for that monitor. When I move the app to a 13 inch 1920x1080 screen with text size set to 150% the UI looks perfect.

Photo Supreme 2023
Windows 10

How do I fix it?
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Hert
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Re: Blurry fonts when normal text scale in Windows

Post by Hert »

A warm welcome to the forum.
How do I fix it?
If you want the best quality experience than best to use a high-res monitor or configure some scaling. With scaling enabled, there are more pixels for the OS to draw the text with which highly increases the font display quality.
FYI, With scaling, PSU still uses the monitor's native resolution to display images.
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danielt
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Re: Blurry fonts when normal text scale in Windows

Post by danielt »

Hi Hert and thanks for confirming.

Yes scaling to 125% from the recommended 100% fixes the problem but it means that all the other applications are larger. Windows doesn't allow to scale just one app.

I can see how in the coming years this issues becomes less important as more and more people migrate to high dpi monitors. I imagine that at the moment there are still quite a lot of standard mointors around.
G8DHE
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Re: Blurry fonts when normal text scale in Windows

Post by G8DHE »

If you look at the Compatibility tab in the properties of a program you can set it on a per program basis.
Geoff Mather (G8DHE)
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