Like most programmers in third-world countries, my first choice of OS has always been Windows. And as far as developing Android goes, the experience is, at the very least, tolerable, except one thing: Font Rendering.
Window’s font rendering, comparing to it’s macOS counterpart, is horrendous no matter how many hours you spent staring at those 6 sample texts to configure ClearType.
For normal users maybe it’s not a big deal, but when most of your job is to look at texts…
Here’s where MacType comes in. Download it here.
A better font rasterizer for Windows
If you are like me and get annoyed by those little pixelated texts but couldn’t afford a Macbook yet, MacType is definitely a real sweetheart.
A few notes to install and use MacType
- Choose Typical mode in the installer.
- Use these recommended settings.
You can mess around with the profiles to find the best one for your configuration. And that’s it, you can now be able to withstand programming on Windows a little while longer.
