some fonts seems to be not smooth rendered in win8

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I notice that some fonts especially from the new metro stuff seems to be very unsmooth rendered. have you noticed the same or an explanation for this?
 

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What do you mean? All the fonts in the Start Screen and metro apps and Desktop render smoothly for me.

Perhaps it could be a generic graphics driver that could be doing that?
 

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Poor Font Rendering

I have had a problem with font rendering on Windows 8 Pro RTM, Release Preview and all previous iterations of Windows 8.

I am able to get reasonably clear fonts only in Firefox and Waterfox by setting in about:config
gfx.direct2d.disabled = true

Apparently the font rendering in Windows 8 is different to Windows 7. One aspect is the use of grey-scale anti-aliasing instead of RGB anti-aliasing.

On a Mozilla forum one poster had noted this problem on PCs with varying configurations including Intel HD graphics and both Nvidia and AMD video cards. I also have recently updated my hardware and the font problem persists, so it is not the hardware.

I am dual booting Windows 7 on the same PC and have no font problems whatsoever in Windows 7.

The worst font rendering is in IE10 (desktop version). Disabling hardware acceleration in Internet options > Advanced makes no difference.
Parts of Office 2013 are also really bad, such as Word.

The blurry fonts make Windows 8 virtually unusable for me.:(
 

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