Segoe ui font light windows#
fon font so it's impervious to ALL smoothing - so whenever I'm online and there is something written in larger Segoe UI or wherever 9pt+ of it is present in the system, Windows defaults to MS Sans Serif the larger sizes of which look really bad un-smoothed. The problem though is that MS Sans Serif is a. So I'm thinking I finally solved this - it doesn't look nearly as well as Tahoma 8pt, but at this point I'm fine with that. That's my only option really - all the other fonts look too ridiculous and/or are too big at 9pt. So I end up changing it to MS Sans Serif which is a system font that does not have a 9pt size, so it defaults to 8pt and it looks somewhat normal. So, after doing that all Segoe UI becomes Tahoma 9pt, which is significantly larger than Tahoma 8pt and that not only looks bad but it messes up a lot of applications where the text cannot fit in well. However, the default system font is Segoe UI 9pt and while you can change the font itself, you cannot change the size. Ideally that would be Tahoma 8pt, which is XP's and 7's Classic theme default font.
So my last resort is to go into the registry and replace all Segoe UI fonts with something else. I can eliminate more of it by switching to the Classic theme, which I have, and that takes care of about 70% of it maybe but it's still in a LOT of places. But that hardly changes half the text out there, Segoe UI is still everywhere. I can change all the fonts to Tahoma 8pt from Personalize -> Window Color -> Advanced Appearance Settings. My only other option is to try to eliminate Segoe UI.
I love the XP-style smoothing that was carried over to Vista and 7, it works and makes things look good unlike ClearType which adds additional colors. So what options do I have? I can turn off all smoothing, but that just makes things worse - Segoe UI looks horrible, like a 1980s video game font, and now everything else that is bold or larger size looks rough and pixelated too. So I turn it off and ironically now Segoe UI is the only font that looks absolutely horrible, because it was obviously created FOR ClearType - it's very, very rough without it and the standard Windows smoothing makes it look overly fuzzy and blurry. ClearType really doesn't agree with my eyes, it's not an option for me to have it enabled - the only font that it actually makes look good is Segoe UI. Here an example.Well, I think it's fair to say that Microsoft has put those of us who aren't fans of ClearType in quite a situation, and the key to that is Segoe UI. The problem is that I cannot do it work with Segoe UI Bold (I think the name is wrong).
I have declared all the styles with in order to use the font-weight property to change the thickness of the font (it's a really cool feature!). I want to use the "Segoe UI" font in a website if it is installed in the user's computer.