Editing ClearType (section)

===Expert opinion===
In a [[MSDN]] article, Microsoft acknowledges that "[te]xt that is rendered with ClearType can also appear significantly different when viewed by individuals with varying levels of color sensitivity. Some individuals can detect slight differences in color better than others."<ref>[http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa970267.aspx Windows Presentation Foundation ClearType Registry Settings]</ref> This opinion is shared by font designer Thomas Phinney (former CEO of [[FontLab]], also formerly with [[Adobe Systems]]<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.adobe.com/products/type/font-designers/thomas-phinney.html | title=Thomas W. Phinney II &#124; Adobe Fonts}}</ref>): "There is also considerable variation between individuals in their sensitivity to color fringing. Some people just notice it and are bothered by it a lot more than others."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.typophile.com/node/33005#comment-197028 |title=ClearType, in XP and Vista |publisher=Typophile |access-date=2010-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013085409/http://www.typophile.com/node/33005#comment-197028 |archive-date=2008-10-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Software developer Melissa Elliott has written about finding ClearType rendering uncomfortable to read, saying that "instead of seeing black text, I see blue text, and rendered over it but offset by a pixel or two, I see orange text, and someone reached into a bag of purple pixel glitter and just tossed it on...I’m not the only person in the world with this problem, and yet, every time it comes up, people are quick to assure me it works for them as if that’s supposed to make me feel better."<ref name="ClearType Elliott">{{cite web|last1=Elliott|first1=Melissa|title=ClearType|url=http://abad1dea.tumblr.com/post/98281499300/to-not-be-taken-seriously|access-date=15 August 2015}}</ref>

Hinting expert Beat Stamm, who worked on ClearType at Microsoft,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.myfonts.com/person/stamm/beat/ |title=Beat Stamm |publisher=MyFonts |date=1999-02-22 |access-date=2010-01-22}}</ref> agrees that ClearType may look blurry at [[Dots per inch#Computer monitor DPI standards|96 dpi]], which was a typical<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.zdnet.com/definition/Dpi.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201013347/http://dictionary.zdnet.com/definition/Dpi.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 1, 2008 |title=Dpi: Definition and additional resources from ZDNet |publisher=[[ZDNet]] |access-date=2010-01-22}}</ref> resolution for [[LCD]]s in 2008, but adds that higher resolution displays improve on this aspect: "[[Windows Presentation Foundation|WPF]] [Windows Presentation Foundation] uses method C [ClearType with fractional pixel positioning<ref>{{cite web|url=http://rastertragedy.com/RTRCh3.htm#Sec32 |title=Fractional Advance Widths |publisher=The Raster Tragedy at Low-Resolution Revisited |date=2011-03-14 |access-date=2011-03-17}}</ref>], but few display devices have a sufficiently high resolution to make the potential blur a moot point for everybody.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;. Some people are ok with the blur in Method C, some aren’t. Anecdotal evidence suggests that some people are fine with Method C when reading continuous text at 96 dpi (e.g. Times Reader, etc.) but not in UI scenarios. Many people are fine with the colors of ClearType, even at 96 dpi, but a few aren’t… To my eyes and at 96 dpi, Method C doesn’t read as well as Method A. It reads “blurrily” to me. Conversely, at 144 dpi, I don't see a problem with Method C. It looks and reads just fine to me."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.typophile.com/node/33005#comment-197660 |title=ClearType, in XP and Vista |publisher=Typophile |access-date=2010-01-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013085409/http://www.typophile.com/node/33005#comment-197660 |archive-date=2008-10-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> One illustration of the potential problem is the following image:

[[Image:FontSmoothingExample.gif|center|Text without rendering (upper portion) and text with ClearType rendering (lower portion)]]

In the above block of text, the same portion of text is shown in the upper half without and in the lower half with ClearType rendering (as opposed to Standard and ClearType in the previous image). This demonstrates the blurring introduced.