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Fixing fuzzy fonts
Oct. 17th, 2014 02:28 pmScary and dangerous as it is to mess with the registry, sometimes that's the only way.
I hate some of the fonts used by Windows, particularly Calibri. At large sizes it's ok, but at small sizes it goes grey and fuzzy. Eventually I got so fed up with it that I deleted it. Oops - a lot of Microsoft apps seem confused by missing fonts, and instead of another similar font, they use an icky script font. I was going to put Calibri back and admit defeat, but googling found me this:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com:443/Forums/windows/en-US/12b37082-c4e6-4beb-9bfb-7b992ebc2a1a/tip-how-to-substitute-any-font-with-for-any-other-font?forum=w7itproui
...amd in case that page disappears, the registry fix is in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes
I hate some of the fonts used by Windows, particularly Calibri. At large sizes it's ok, but at small sizes it goes grey and fuzzy. Eventually I got so fed up with it that I deleted it. Oops - a lot of Microsoft apps seem confused by missing fonts, and instead of another similar font, they use an icky script font. I was going to put Calibri back and admit defeat, but googling found me this:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com:443/Forums/windows/en-US/12b37082-c4e6-4beb-9bfb-7b992ebc2a1a/tip-how-to-substitute-any-font-with-for-any-other-font?forum=w7itproui
...amd in case that page disappears, the registry fix is in
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes
