Short question:
How can I change the default windows 8.1 fonts to something else?! (see pic below for further details)
Long question:
I discovered that the default Windows 8 font is Segoe WP which I really don't like. I believe I was using Tahoma on my previous system - Windows 7, which on it's own was using Segoe UI which I disabled to mimic Windows XP. I have probably changed it via the (which I miss so very much)
or by changing the registries (shown below)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts]"Segoe UI (TrueType)"="""Segoe UI Bold (TrueType)"="""Segoe UI Italic (TrueType)"="""Segoe UI Bold Italic (TrueType)"=""[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]"Segoe UI"="Tahoma"My issue is that I HATE ClearType. It looks horrible on my LCD screen.
As you can see, in any way it looks just either weird-ish 3D or just very pixelated. I like Font Smoothing and I do enjoy dropping shadows under desktop icons, but ClearType in combination with Segoe is just horrible.
Weirdly, right now on some sites which are using Helvetica Neue, like 9gag, no matter what I do, they look just.. broken (see pic above).
PS: I've calibrated the ClearType 500 time so far and I'm just not satisfied. I simply want Tahoma instead of Segoe Wp.
PPS: I did try to remove all SegoeUI and SegoeWP fonts from the registries and then made on my own two new string values to basically copy the same flow from the above script = small improvement, but not as good as I want.