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I've tried to ask this before in various contexts and I've never been able to find an answer but maybe commenters on a post like this would know.

I like the way that the CJK fonts render without anti-aliasing on windows. I want to know why and how to cause windows to render a non-cjk font of my choosing in this aliased style. I am not opposed to hex-editing or otherwise modifying the font if that's necessary. I've never been able to find information bout the mechanism or how it's triggered.




!!!! thank you !!!!


Just disable ClearType and all your text will be uniform :)


Well that's not what I want, I want to specifically prevent some passages in text from being rendered as anti-aliased for art reasons.


At some point, if you're doing it for art reasons, it makes the most sense to just render to an image.


right, i can solve this okay by rendering an image and then putting transparent text over it in order to preserve editability, but it's such a pain in the ass, and i know windows is capable of doing it because it does do it, i'm not looking for a solution, i want to understand a facet of windows font rendering




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