Since owning a mac and seeing my type render nicely in my browsers I’ve been very frustrated with how type looks in Windows. I was checking on one of our sites the other day to see how it was looking in Explorer and was especially horrified at some italic text.

I’ve done some digging and for those of you on a Windows system there is hope.

For XP users: Go to your Desktop > Right Click > Display Properties > Appearance > Effects

Then under “Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts:” Select “Clear Type”

Try it out, You can see the difference it made for me in the image below. (Note: IE 7 has this built into the browser)