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Today, I will talk to you about the skills of Windows display, which may not be understood by many people. In order to let you know more, Xiaobian summarized the following contents for you. I hope you can gain something according to this article.

How to improve Windows font rendering is an eternal topic, for a long time everyone has such an impression: Windows font rendering is not so fine and clear compared to macOS. In fact, this is indeed the case, due to the uneven hardware in the Windows world and the "historical baggage" of forward compatibility, Windows new UI and new rendering mode need to be compatible with older programs, often because of these programs, to Windows users "font rendering blurred" experience.

However, with the update of the Windows system itself in recent years, and the increasing popularity of high-resolution screens in the Windows market, in 2019 today, Windows font rendering has been greatly improved. Many times, we do not need such plug-in font rendering programs as MacType to improve Windows 'own font rendering engine, and we can achieve a more ideal font rendering effect.

Here are a few tips worth trying.

1. Before buying a computer

It has to be admitted that the hinting of Microsoft Yahei font itself, which is the default of Windows system in Chinese environment, is not ideal. It is precisely because of this limitation that Windows renders fonts on screens below 1920*1080 resolution with great blur. But on high-resolution screens, Windows font rendering is still a lot more eye-catching. Here,"high-resolution screen" refers to a screen that is at least 100% scaled in your system display zoom and layout during daily use, so that the font of the system UI does not appear too small.

My computer is a 2560*1440 resolution OLED screen, daily use of 150% zoom

Therefore, before buying a computer, try to buy a notebook with a screen with a resolution of 1920*1080 or more, or buy a monitor with a resolution of 2K or more.

2. system selection

While it may sound surprising, 2019 is still the year in which a significant number of people choose Windows 7, or even older versions of Windows. Today, more than three years after the release of *** versions of Windows 10, really, don't use Windows versions other than Windows 10.

Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 at the end of lifecycle support

As the technology iterates, new systems bring not only improved stability, but also many new features (we thought nothing happened in 1809). Last year, DirectWrite font rendering engine was updated with new features with the release of Windows 10 Creators Update, which also means that high-resolution screens can better display DirectWrite rendered fonts.

In short, Windows 10 has made a great effort to improve font rendering, and we need to take advantage of it.

3. software uses

I mentioned at the beginning that the Windows platform has made a lot of sacrifices to be compatible with older clients. At the same time, many times what we call bad rendering of Windows fonts is actually caused by the default font of these clients being "Zhongyi Song". For better font rendering, we can try the following two ways to solve this problem.

Use the UWP version more often

First of all, UWP applications directly use the DirectWrite rendering engine, which will greatly improve the font rendering effect compared to the old client (not all applications listed on the Windows Store are UWP versions). Also, UWP default UI fonts are non-serif, so in theory, UWP versions of the program have a good font display effect.

Windows 10 Mail, Calendar and UWP versions of Netease Cloud Music

Make good use of Chrome's web version apps

Usually, web-side applications render fonts well, and it's easier to change the fonts used by the corresponding applications (after all, you can change the corresponding CSS). Using the *** methods described in the above link article, we can easily use Chrome App to make a web version of the desktop application, not only has the same features as the native client, but also has better font choices.

Note that we need to replace all three default fonts in Chrome (Standard, Serif, and Sans-serif) with fonts that render better. I recommend this font here: Sarasa Gothic /More Yarn Blackbody/More Yarn Blackbody/More Yarn $> The boldface is a font that also has excellent display at 100% zoom. After installation, we will get several fonts, among which the one we need is "Sarasa UI SC", which means "Sarasa UI SC". SC stands for Simplified Chinese, Simplified Chinese.

After installation, more yarn black body family

After that, in Chrome's settings interface, replace all three options in the default font with "Sarasa UI SC".

In Chrome settings, change all fonts to more black.

Take the same example I mentioned in the link above: Slack.

Slack Chrome App vs Slack Desktop

Compare it to the version of Slack from Microsoft Store: The UI of the client made with Chrome App on the left is not only normal non-serif font, but also much better than the display on the right. Delightful!

4. alternate font

Of course, the above measures may not be able to completely solve the rendering of old client fonts that are still compatible with Windows XP at 100% zoom. At this time, it is more important to choose a suitable font to replace Microsoft Yahei globally. Replacing Windows fonts globally is a messy and risky business, and choosing the wrong font and character set can cause some incompatible programs to garble, so be aware that what you are about to do carries a lot of risk.

noMeiryoUI is an open source Windows font replacement tool developed by Japanese friends. After downloading and unzipping, you will get a file directory like this:

Pay attention to minority, reply "font" in the background to get download link.

noMeiryoUI Download the extracted directory file

The one we're going to run is that exe file. Click Run program, then we will replace the default Microsoft black with the newly installed black "Sarasa UI SC": Select... Menu, select "Sarasa UI SC" in "Font Selection", then select "OK"; then select "Set all" on the main page, wait a moment, all options in the main page are set to more black, then we click "Set", so that we complete the replacement of fonts.

noMeiryoUI font replacement interface

After this operation, we can see that the fonts in a series of places, including Windows Explorer, right-click menu, etc., have been replaced with more black.

Microsoft elegant black vs. chiffon black contrast (file explorer interface)

The above picture is a comparison, but because my computer is a 2K resolution screen, the contrast is not very obvious, more is the difference in the font, but if I connect the computer to the 1080p resolution display, the difference between the two fonts is very obvious. All in all, the blackbody yarn does look better at 100% zoom than Microsoft Elegant Black.

However, it should be noted that UWP applications using DirectWrite rendering engine are not affected by our font substitution method. Of course, UWP has made great font rendering progress due to the existence of DirectWrite, so we won't force it.

After reading the above, do you have any further understanding of Windows display skills? If you still want to know more knowledge or related content, please pay attention to the industry information channel, thank you for your support.

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