How to turn off ClearType for one application only?

I'd like to leave ClearType on for most of my applications, but 1 or 2 of them really need it turned off because the characters look horribly fuzzy with it turned on. I'm using Windows 7. Is there any way to specify an application that ClearType should be disabled on?

Solution 1:

No, ClearType works on the entire screen at once. You can't turn it on or off per application or per window.

You could turn it off altogether while you work with those two programs and then turn it back on, but that is probably just as uncomfortable as it sounds.

Instead, you should try to figure out what's wrong with the two programs that look bad. It might be possible to set them to use a different font, or a different "skin".

Solution 2:

Currently I don't know any way to disable ClearType for a specific app, but you can try Mactype which is an alternate open source text renderer with much more configurations than Windows' default ClearType renderer. You can tell Mactype to ignore a process or not instantly