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Eirik Bakke commented on NETBEANS-6358:
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OK, the problem is definitively related to ClearType being disabled. The Segoe
UI font, on Swing, renders too heavy when ClearType is disabled, while Tahoma
reverts to a completely un-antialiased look:
!ClearType Tahoma vs. Segoe.png!
This is also a problem in the regular menu bar on standalone Swing apps (where
Segoe UI 12 is used automatically), and on FlatLAF prior to either of the
recent patches mentioned above (since FlatLAF always used Segoe UI 12 on
Windows). For example, NetBeans 12.2 has the same problem when ClearType is
disabled, when run with FlatLAF Light. But except in the menu bars, the Windows
LAF previously avoided the problem by using Tahoma 11, which ended up
non-antialiased.
The immediate workaround is to enable ClearType in the Windows control panel.
But ideally we'd want NetBeans to look good even when it is disabled. Let me
investigate the best way to achieve this...
> Font style regression: badly readable font style
> ------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: NETBEANS-6358
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-6358
> Project: NetBeans
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: editor - Navigation, ide - UI, java - Navigation
> Affects Versions: 12.6
> Environment: NB 12.6
> Win10
> Reporter: S. M.
> Assignee: Eirik Bakke
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: ClearType Tahoma vs. Segoe.png, NetBeans 12.6 Project
> Font on Windows 11.png, bold.png, regular.png
>
>
> The font style changed in 12.6 in a way that makes it less readable. The
> following fonts are bold now:
> - The name of the source files in the source-code-tab
> - The project names in the projects windows (and all its child nodes)
> This bulky use of bold fonts makes the text badly readable. Please use a
> regular font instead! The source-code names in the source-window-tab used to
> be bold only when the file had unsaved changes, which seems to be a good
> thing to me.
> It might seem to be a 'minor' problem, but the font as part of the
> ergonomically usability is quite important.
> Thanks a lot!
> Here the comparison:
> Bulky and badly readable: New bold style
> !bold.png!
> Clear and readable: Old regular style
> !regular.png!
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