title: WPF Blurry fonts issue- Solutions
body: <p>Problem is described and demonstrated on the following links:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081123055336/http://paulstovell.com/blog/wpf-why-is-my-text-so-blurry" rel="noreferrer">Paul Stovell  WPF: Blurry Text Rendering  </a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=445078" rel="noreferrer">www.gamedev.net forum</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=380919&amp;wa=wsignin1.0" rel="noreferrer">Microsoft Connect: WPF text renderer produces badly blurred text on small font sizes</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Explanation: <a href="http://windowsclient.net/wpf/white-papers/wpftextclarity.aspx" rel="noreferrer">Text Clarity in WPF</a>. This link has font comparison.</p>
  
  <p>I would like to collect all possible solutions for this problem. Microsoft Expression Blend uses WPF but fonts look readable. </p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Dark background as in Microsoft Expression Blend</li>
  <li>Increasing the font size and changing the font (Calibri ... ) <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/190344/wpf-blurry-fonts-problem#190521">[link]</a></li>
  <li>Embed windows forms <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/190344/wpf-blurry-fonts-problem#190540">[link]</a></li>
  <li>Use GDI+ and/or Windows Forms TextRenderer class to render text to a bitmap, and then render that bitmap as a WPF control. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/190344/wpf-blurry-fonts-problem#283216">[link]</a></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Are there any more solutions?</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/190344/wpf-blurry-fonts-problem-solutions/1494126#1494126"><strong>This is going to be fixed in VS2010 (and WPF4) beta 2</strong></a></p>
  
  <p><strong>IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS BEEN FINALLY SOLVED !</strong>  </p>
  
  <p><a href="http://www.hanselman.com/blog/WPFAndTextBlurrinessNowWithCompleteClarity.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ScottHanselman+%28Scott+Hanselman+-+ComputerZen.com%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader" rel="noreferrer"><strong>Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen.com: WPF and Text Blurriness, now with complete Clarity</strong></a>  </p>