Altho im on a posting hiatus, sorta, I have to second this, most areas I see in vista text do not appear to be antialiased, I use Calibri almost exclusively, and frankly, it looks awful, start menu, taskbar, explorer windows, context menus, etc..

I could I suppose remove all font references and use default fonts but that would mean replacing and updating them all again once this is fixed, as of now, for me, it's probably the most displeasing part of using WB on Vista and really, makes a great theme, look bad.

In reference to your last post Neil, even using opaque backgrounds, doesnt make much of a difference. My current themes menus and start menu are opaque and althought the text isn't THAT bad, it's nothing like the clarity it should be.

@ Neil Banfield,


All right, I see there's same issue with regular Vista theme engine, i.e
cleartype is disabled on transparent areas.
Curiously, even when I disable transparency,
Vista disable cleartype on area "supposed to be" transparent. Dumb.

However, I've tested Windowsblinds with 100% opaque theme,
and still there's a problem :
* cleartype doesn't work on start menu
* cleartype doesn't work on "breadcrumb navigation".

Also I tried to remove transparency using "Explorer backgrounds" tab of
windowsblinds, and cleartype is not back in the explorer (and that's part where
cleartype is the most usefull , I think).


Finally, I used an opaque theme, and then used a program like "blend" from "Lord Devrexter"
to induce transparency (here : http://devrexster.googlepages.com/, sorry I don't like windows fx ).
Cleartype stayed even on transparent area, so technically it should be possible.

@vStyler


yes, I've been using your rapture theme, and calibri really looked bad, especially in explorer.
I've checked option "I do not want to use any system wide fonts defined by this skin"
and it looks overall better, but still far from perfect in explorer.

I wouldn't say there's no anti-aliasing, but calibri look messed up with the default small
size in explorer. Are you sure Standard Font Smoothing or Cleartype is enabled on your system ?

I just realised that right-click menu has Cleartype despite being transparent .
There's really NO CONSISTENCY in the way Cleartype is handled.