I've tried to ask this before in various contexts and I've never been able to find an answer but maybe commenters on a post like this would know.

I like the way that the CJK fonts render without anti-aliasing on windows. I want to know why and how to cause windows to render a non-cjk font of my choosing in this aliased style. I am not opposed to hex-editing or otherwise modifying the font if that's necessary. I've never been able to find information bout the mechanism or how it's triggered.

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mgdlbp 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://int10h.org/blog/2016/01/windows-cleartype-truetype-f...

http://www.electronicdissonance.com/2010/01/raster-fonts-in-...

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Permik 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just disable ClearType and all your text will be uniform :)

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thot_experiment 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Well that's not what I want, I want to specifically prevent some passages in text from being rendered as anti-aliased for art reasons.

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bawolff 13 hours ago | parent [-]

At some point, if you're doing it for art reasons, it makes the most sense to just render to an image.

	▲	thot_experiment 12 hours ago \| parent [-]
		right, i can solve this okay by rendering an image and then putting transparent text over it in order to preserve editability, but it's such a pain in the ass, and i know windows is capable of doing it because it does do it, i'm not looking for a solution, i want to understand a facet of windows font rendering