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ClearType

ClearType is Microsoft's implementation of subpixel rendering technology in rendering text in a font system. ClearType attempts to improve the appearance of text on certain types of computer display screens by sacrificing color fidelity for additional intensity variation. This trade-off is asserted to work well on LCD flat panel monitors.

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Implementations

Windows XPWindows VistaWindows 8Windows 10Universal Windows Platform
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Background

Anti-aliasingFont hintingChrominanceLuminanceBitmaps
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Human vision and cognition

MSDNFontLabAdobe Systems96 dpiWPF
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Sensitivity to display orientation

PigmentsWindows XPRGBBGRTablet PCs
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Human vision and cognition

Display requirements

Sensitivity to display orientation

Implementations

Patents

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ClearType

Nodes76
Edges75
Triples198
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.026316
Components1

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ClearType

Top relations

related to External links · 49
ClearType → Beat Stamm's, Blinn, ClearType Filtering, ClearType Technology, ClearTypedoi, ClearTypeRon Feigenblatt's, Debate, December, Displaced Filtering, Dresevic, Engineering Changes, Farrell, Hill, Hitchcock, ICIP, IEEE International Conference, Image Processing, Information Display Symposium, Joyce, June
related to ClearType in DirectWrite · 33
ClearType → Also Windows, And, API, As, BGR, But, CFF, Compact Font Format, DirectWrite, DPI, Even, Excel, Firefox, For, Jerking, LCD, LCDs, Many Office, Meanwhile, Microsoft
related to Expert opinion · 27
ClearType → Adobe Systems, Anecdotal, Beat Stamm, CEO, Conversely, FontLab, Hinting, I'm, In, It, LCDs, Many, Melissa Elliott, Method, Microsoft, MSDN, One, Software, Some, There
related to ClearType in WPF · 17
ClearType → All, Caching, Cards, ClearType's, CPU, DirectX, GDI, MB, Microsoft, MSDN WPF Text Blog, RGB, The, There, This, Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF, Y-direction
related to Empirical studies · 14
ClearType → According, Additionally, Austin, Clemson University, Dillon, LCD, Participants, Pennsylvania, Texas, The, The University, University, When, Whether ClearType
related to Implementations · 11
ClearType → Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Reader ClearType, Universal Windows PlatformWindows, Used, Win32, Windows, Windows Live Messenger, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Vista, Windows XP
related to Sensitivity to display orientation · 9
ClearType → Because ClearType, BGR, LCD, LCDs, RGB, Tablet PCs, The, Using ClearType, Windows XP
related to Patents · 8
ClearType → Filtering, Maintaining, Mapping, Method, Methods, Microsoft, Subpixel, Weighted
related to ClearType tuning · 6
ClearType → Control Panel, If ClearType, Microsoft ClearType, Microsoft Reader, Windows, Windows XP
related to ClearType Font Collection · 5
ClearType → As, CalibriCambriaCandaraConsolasConstantiaCorbelMeiryo, ClearType Font Collection, Microsoft, Vista

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text display patent rendering microsoft pixel image color windows displays font method apparatus data subpixel also pixels samples anti-aliasing directwrite

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Adobe Photoshopinstance ofbut not in images within programs0.80text
the display of anti-aliased text on top of other graphicsinstance ofand other operations0.80text
textU.S. patent 6instance ofMethod and apparatus for displaying images0.80text
219instance ofMethod and apparatus for displaying images0.80text
025instance ofMethod and apparatus for displaying images0.80text
ClearTyperelated to backgroundComputer0.60section
ClearTyperelated to backgroundThis0.60section
ClearTyperelated to backgroundLike0.60section
ClearTyperelated to backgroundThe0.60section
ClearTyperelated to ClearType Font CollectionAs0.60section
ClearTyperelated to ClearType Font CollectionVista0.60section
ClearTyperelated to ClearType Font CollectionMicrosoft0.60section

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