Posted by Lim on Jul 16th, 08 | Filed under
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Hawkeye Font Browser is a free utilities which able to list all installed fonts on your computer.
Sometimes you may want to know your computer’s installed fonts and may also wish to see the font’s render in different size or color. We may use Microsoft Word to help us, but we still need to choose them one by one in order to view result from different font type.
Hawkeye Font Browser makes viewing fonts easy. Once you launch the application, you can type some text and press the “Redraw Font List” button, so that the Font List will repaint and you can compare the results from different font type immediately.
For example, i type “You can type anything” and press the button. I can then get a list of text showing different font’s results. Click the result will show you the font type and larger display of the font render result.
This is a very handy utilities, especially you install a lot of fonts on your computer. It require .NET Framework 3.5 to run.
download Hawkeye Font Browser | download from MediaFire | download .NET Framework 3.5
Posted by Lim on May 10th, 08 | Filed under
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Microsoft had released a free application which can tune the ClearType font so that it looks nicer under Windows XP (for LCD user).
With Windows XP, ClearType delivers improved font display quality over traditional forms of font smoothing or anti-aliasing. ClearType improves readability on color LCD displays with a digital interface, such as those in laptops and high-quality flat panel displays. Readability on CRT screens can also be somewhat improved.
You can compare the display before turn on ClearType tuning and after turn on ClearType tuning here:
As you can see, after turn on the ClearType tuning, the font look nicer and smoother than before. To tune your ClearType font, you can either download ClearType Tuner from microsoft, or use the online Tuner.
I haven’t try the online tuner, but the desktop version of ClearType Tuner is pretty easy to use. After install the application, you can then proceed to choose the best display that suit you. After you make changes, you will come to a final page which show you the results of different ClearType font on your system. Press finish and you will start enjoying the new settings.
download ClearType Tuner | online ClearType Tuner
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