Font Fixing!

HEY! Are you tired of Japanese looking like crap when you're using Windows? Me too!
As a man who is proficient in Linux and Mac but begrudgingly uses Windows on most of his computers, for reasons I won't go into, I finally fixed that problem.
In case you don't know what I'm talking about, the default font for displaying Japanese characters in Windows looks like something the Mooninites from ATHF crapped out. (A pixelated mess!) Here they are after working a whole five minutes devloping their crappy font:


Getting sick of this font and the eye strain it was causing me, I actually searched on Google using the following phrase as my query: "Japanese fonts look like crap in Vista" (I'm not making that up)
Apparently I wasn't alone in my frustration and found some information that helped me remedy this situation. It is this information that I now share with you, my readership. (Also, take a look at my last blog entry for a link to a website that will help you recognize Hiragana and Katakana)

For Firefox users (I put you first because Firefox is a much superior web browser compared to Internet Explorer):

1) Open up the "Tools" menu and select "Options"

2) Click on the "Content" tab

3) Under "Fonts and Colors" click advanced

4) select "Japanese" under "Fonts for"

5) Change Serif and Sans-serif to "Meiryo"

6) Click "OK"

7) Breathe a sigh of relief as all your Japanese fonts smooth out and become readable!

For Internet Explorer 7:

1) Open the Windows Control Panel

2) Open the "Internet Options" Control Panel

3) Select the "General" Tab and click on the "Fonts" button at the bottom of the window

4) Change the "Language Script" menu to "Japanese"

5) Change the "Webpage font" to "Meiryo"

6) Click "OK" and then click "OK" again

7) Ponder why are you still using Internet Explorer when you could be using Firefox

8) Ponder why you're still using Windows when Mac OS is such a nicer operating system.

This blog entry is complete.
-ベックマン