Comments on: Say No to Segoe (and ClearType) on Vista

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:36:13 +0000

I just deleted Segeo UI… This has fixed my issues. I don’t use CS3 so I don’t know how this would effect Adobie… but it’s been all good for a year now.

By: Steve Halpern

Steve Halpern — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:36:53 +0000

Yes, just type in the exact font name… I have Tahoma and Aral hard coded into the list box, but otherwise, just type Courier New if you want and it should work.

By: sv219

sv219 — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:05:44 +0000

Steve,

can you add more fonts in this application? For example will be good have same for “Courier New”

By: Pepe

Pepe — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:27:23 +0000

Thank you for this. I actually get bad headaches from this font and I am happy that I can use Windows 7 now.

By: Klaus Schulze

Klaus Schulze — Mon, 11 May 2009 15:13:06 +0000

Excellent – it also works on Windows 7 RC1

By: Steve Halpern

Steve Halpern — Wed, 06 May 2009 15:49:27 +0000

Rob,

You should show them this thread. I can only imagine the numbers who do not know there is another option (workaround actually).

Do the engineers know there is not an option to change Segoe UI to another font?

Steve

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 06 May 2009 06:08:52 +0000

Please keep it up!

Bad news: Windows 7 RC renders Segoe without cleartype even worse than Vista.

Good news: saynotosegoe appears to work just as well in Windows 7.

Worst news: Windows 7 engineers have replied to my concern – they don’t think this is a problem, because of the ability to disable or tweak cleartype. Perhaps they think the flashy new wallpapers will distract me from the blurry mess of unreadable text throughout my OS.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:21:55 +0000

Thanks.

Is there some way we can ensure this monstrous OS flaw is fixed for Windows 7?

Maybe if everyone contacted here for starters?

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/contact.aspx

By: Steve Halpern

Steve Halpern — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:22:06 +0000

Rob,

Yes, I do agree, and I updated my article. I had not had an LCD monitor before, now I have one on a newer computer, and sure enough it was still a problem on the 22-inch LCD.

Steve

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 13:40:10 +0000

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

I don’t know what Microsoft are using for monitors, or what they are thinking.

I assure everybody that Cleartype and uncleartyped Segoe ALSO LOOK TERRIBLE ON ALL NOTEBOOK LCDS, which are now the most popular computers in use. I see exactly the issues you see, and so does everybody I show.

I can only think 20″+ LCDs too close with the sharpness setting too artificially high are in use at Microsoft.