WPF Blurry fonts issue- Solutions
Problem is described and demonstrated on the following links:
- Paul Stovell WPF: Blurry Text Rendering
- www.gamedev.net forum
- Microsoft Connect: WPF text renderer produces badly blurred text on small font sizes
Explanation: Text Clarity in WPF. This link has font comparison.
I would like to collect all possible solutions for this problem. Microsoft Expression Blend uses WPF but fonts look readable.
- Dark background as in Microsoft Expression Blend
- Increasing the font size and changing the font (Calibri ... ) [link]
- Embed windows forms [link]
- Use GDI+ and/or Windows Forms TextRenderer class to render text to a bitmap, and then render that bitmap as a WPF control. [link]
Are there any more solutions?
This is going to be fixed in VS2010 (and WPF4) beta 2
IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS BEEN FINALLY SOLVED !
Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen.com: WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity
Answer
.NET 4 finally has a solution to WPF's poor text rendering quality, but it is well-hidden. Set the following for every window:
TextOptions.TextFormattingMode="Display"
Default value is "Ideal" which is not at all what the name implies.
There are two other options in TextOptions, namely TextHintingMode and TextRenderingMode, but they both have sensible defaults.