WPF Blurry fonts issue- Solutions

Question

Problem is described and demonstrated on the following links:

• Paul Stovell WPF: Blurry Text Rendering
• www.gamedev.net forum
• Microsoft Connect: WPF text renderer produces badly blurred text on small font sizes

Explanation: Text Clarity in WPF. This link has font comparison.

I would like to collect all possible solutions for this problem. Microsoft Expression Blend uses WPF but fonts look readable.

• Dark background as in Microsoft Expression Blend
• Increasing the font size and changing the font (Calibri ... ) [link]
• Embed windows forms [link]
• Use GDI+ and/or Windows Forms TextRenderer class to render text to a bitmap, and then render that bitmap as a WPF control. [link]

Are there any more solutions?

This is going to be fixed in VS2010 (and WPF4) beta 2

IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS BEEN FINALLY SOLVED !

Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen.com: WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity

Answer 1

.NET 4 finally has a solution to WPF's poor text rendering quality, but it is well-hidden. Set the following for every window:

TextOptions.TextFormattingMode="Display"

Default value is "Ideal" which is not at all what the name implies.

There are two other options in TextOptions, namely TextHintingMode and TextRenderingMode, but they both have sensible defaults.