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by Permik 166 days ago
Just disable ClearType and all your text will be uniform :)
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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