How do I turn off all font hinting in gvim in Windows 7?

I'm not sure this is an answer, but I cannot tolerate TrueType fonts in gvim when I'm working on Windows (or any other code editor on Windows, I suppose). I opt immediately for the bitmap fonts supplied by Linux/X11, in particular the miscfixed font set. They are far far more readable than any TTF font I've encountered, and are crisp & readable even at extremely small sizes (like 6px).

They are completely immune to any font-smoothing or hinting monkey-business.

I'm not sure this is an answer, but I cannot tolerate TrueType fonts in gvim when I'm working on Windows (or any other code editor on Windows, I suppose). I opt immediately for the bitmap fonts supplied by Linux/X11, in particular the miscfixed font set. They are far far more readable than any TTF font I've encountered, and are crisp & readable even at extremely small sizes (like 6px).

They are completely immune to any font-smoothing or hinting monkey-business. Here's a picture I lifted from someone's blog post: I am not certain of a download location for the font set, but when on Windows I have typically installed the Cygwin environment and just copied the fonts from Cygwin to the Windows fonts directory. Note: There is a TTF implementation of this font out there somewhere, but it looks terrible, especially when ClearType is on.

The true bitmap font is the way to go.

I found a bitmap version of the font in question. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. Gvim is still trying to 'bold' the font even though I have removed all references to 'bold' from my colorscheme file, but my question was about hinting, so enjoy the points.

:) – mwcz Jul 6 at 3:34 1 @mwcz Happy to help & sing the praises of bitmap fonts. Regarding the bold issue - I had the same problem (detest bold fonts) and solved it by adding explicitly adding gui=none to the end of every line in my colorscheme file. – Michael Jul 6 at 10:44 :%s/$/ gui=none/ :D – mwcz Jul 6 at 15:48.

I don't have any other fonts on-hand that aren't supposed to have anti-aliasing. I'll try out Anonymous, it looks cool and I like trying out new fonts. Thanks for the suggestion.

– mwcz Jun 29 at 15:11.

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