Bad font rendering (Win, 3170)

[goaf]

Hi, there!
I have problem with font rendering on Windows 7 machine.

Please help with solving!
And I first time get “Unable to rename … error code: 32” the error while installing.

[goaf]

Before (3143):

[goaf]

After (3170):

[qgates]

You can try tuning font_options (which affects the main editing area) and theme_font_options (which affects tabs, sidebar, statusbar etc) in the settings. If you want rendering as before, try the options dwrite_cleartype_classic or dwrite_cleartype_natural.

[deathaxe]

Sublime Text makes use of Windows’ ClearType settings to setup font smoothing rather than applying hard coded values.

I was dissatisfied about this change in the first place, too, but with some support found the solution to tune Windows in a way to make text look well again.

This change enables everybody to tune text rendering to personal preferences.

The following post contains my current setup.

Dev Build 3164

Need to correct myself: I love the idea to use Windows' ClearType settings. I followed your suggestion and additionally modified the GammaLevel from 2200 to 1800. As I use the HDMI to connect to my A/V-Receiver (primarily for audio), the display assignment seems to change if the receiver is powered on or off. Don't ask me for details, Windows seems too stupid to handle that well. Therefore I cloned the registry keys from DISPLAY1 to DISPLAY2 to ensure the values to be applied. No…

[goaf]

Thanks a lot!
The solution is

“font_options”: [“dwrite_cleartype_natural”],
“theme_font_options”: [“dwrite_cleartype_natural”],

The question is solved.
Thank you for attention.