Howto Enable Font Antialiasing in Windows?

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I have downloaded a font that looks less than desirable if it is not anti-aliased. I can not figure out how to enable anti-aliasing in VS, I have changed the 'Smooth Edges of Screen Fonts' in the system performance options but that does not seem to help. VS2008 on XP SP3.

What am I missing? Fonts windows-xp antialiasing link|improve this question edited Jul 28 '10 at 16:08Adrian McCarthy6,6951829 asked Sep 4 '08 at 20:38Andrew Burns1,39811423 95% accept rate.

Try using ClearType, not Standard font smoothing. It's in Display properties, Appearance, Effects.

I had ugly fonts in my IDE on work computer and thought it was an unsolvable problem, it made me angry... thank you so much for this solution! – Timofei Davydik Mar 29 '11 at 6:20.

It is the Liberation Mono font. @Blorgbeard That is exactly what I was looking for. I was thinking that the setting in computer performance was the only one.

It looks like a charm now.

Some fonts look really ugly on high contrast combinations with a black background. Also, can you see the difference in the fonts in any other application? Which font is it?

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