{"id":346,"date":"2012-07-17T22:06:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T11:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quppa.net\/?p=346"},"modified":"2012-07-17T22:06:47","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T11:06:47","slug":"office-2013-further-evidence-of-the-demise-of-cleartype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/2012\/07\/17\/office-2013-further-evidence-of-the-demise-of-cleartype\/","title":{"rendered":"Office 2013: Further Evidence of the Demise of ClearType?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Poking around the Office 2013 Customer Preview<\/a>, one thing that caught my eye immediately was the lack of ClearType font smoothing<\/a>. Nearly all user interface elements use \u2018greyscale\u2019 font smoothing (as opposed to ClearType\u2019s sub-pixel smoothing<\/a>). I\u2019ve highlighted the parts of Word 2013 that still use ClearType:<\/p>\n

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The text in cells in Excel 2013 still respects the system\u2019s ClearType setting, and Outlook 2013 is a real mess (about half-and-half). OneNote 2013 seems to have retained ClearType in most places (outside the ribbon control).<\/p>\n

Long Zheng earlier noted the absence of ClearType from the Metro environment<\/a> and there are several possible reasons for it falling out of favour at Microsoft. Sub-pixel anti-aliasing isn\u2019t necessarily suited to tablets that need to support multiple orientations (unless different sub-pixel orderings are taken into account), and screens with high pixel densities can get away with greyscale font smoothing.<\/p>\n

I fear that this is another case of the tablet tail wagging the Microsoft dog \u2013 desktop and laptop users of Office 2013 (and Metro-style apps in Windows 8) will have to deal with lower quality text due to the new hardware Microsoft is targeting with its upcoming releases.<\/p>\n

The Office 2013 Customer Preview is, of course, just that, and things might change before RTM.<\/strike> Regrettably this wasn\u2019t fixed for the Office 2013 RTM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poking around the Office 2013 Customer Preview, one thing that caught my eye immediately was the lack of ClearType font smoothing. Nearly all user interface elements use \u2018greyscale\u2019 font smoothing (as opposed to ClearType\u2019s sub-pixel smoothing). I\u2019ve highlighted the parts of Word 2013 that still use ClearType: The text in cells in Excel 2013 still … Continue reading “Office 2013: Further Evidence of the Demise of ClearType?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[31,56,89,90,174],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-office","category-windows","tag-cleartype","tag-fonts","tag-office-2","tag-office-15","tag-windows-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quppa.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}