Screen text - it's not black...

knoxy · 16 Jul 2006 at 09:17

The text on my monitor isn't actually full black, its like its got pinky green pixels where it anti-aliases the text? Now, I had a similar effect on my previous CRT monitor so I'm wondering if it could be my 9800 pro graphics card. I have some screenshots if that makes it easier to figure out what I'm blathering about :-)

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knoxy · 16 Jul 2006 at 18:40

ajgoodfellow said:
That's Windows ClearType

It blurrs the edges of screen fonts by adding differing colours to make the text appear to be smoother

Turn it off and you'll have nice crisp text again

Hmm, I'll try that when I get a chance - cheers for the tip - I'll post back when I've tried.

knoxy · 16 Jul 2006 at 18:52

fish99 said:
knoxy, could you give us a link to a website where you get that problem and we can see if it's there on our PCs too. Maybe it's supposed to look like that.

was just the news.bbc.co.uk website - but i get it on all sites - its not a massive problem, just a bit annoying really :-)

knoxy · 16 Jul 2006 at 23:29

Disabled cleartype and text is black - no pink/green.

Seems it is indeed normal :-)

But why? Its rubbish! Why aren't grey tones used instead??

knoxy · 17 Jul 2006 at 08:00

It's the first time I've had to disable ClearType, I've never noticed it before, only since I got a new LCD monitor. Been using it for the last 5 years!