When you see display options in Windows (even Browsers) prompting you to "Smooth Fonts" you're looking at just one of many workarounds that programs use for displaying a non-postscript font that's readable. There is simply no equal, and I'm sorry - OTF, TTF, EOT, WOFF, Son-of-WOFF, Grandson-of-WOFF - they are all inferior to a Type1 font no matter how many times an attempt is made to replicate them in any format not postscript.
I cringe at the thought of using anything other than an Adobe Type1 Postscript font. Well I'd better preface this with my patented Semicodin Disclaimer™. So it would be great if XYplorer provided it's own custom color control for those UI elements. I have always found that icons looks best on a light grey background, not white. One color that doesn't stick, is the background color for menu and toolbars. You can get the old settings to work via registry keys but they don't stick.
WINDOWS 10 FONT CENTURY SCHOOLBOOK MONOSPACE WINDOWS 10
Once again, Windows 10 has really screwed this up and removed total control over system colors.
Windows 10 made it harder to configure a global font, but there are hacks one can do to make it happen.įor colors, I've long been using only shades of grey, so that the only color on the screen comes from icons, application content, etc. This my global font everywhere throughout Windows. The one serif font I have been using for decades is CENTURY.TTF, which is a Century Schoolbook font with a little more narrow spacing than the traditional one.
What are the favorite fonts and size (ctrl) spacing (ctrl + shift) that others find easy to read using XYplorer?Īny preference for fonts found online? Any preference for background color? I have long been a proponent of serif fonts, after reading a footnote in Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information about serif fonts being generally easier to read because the eye catches on to the little serifs while reading.