Why is cleartype so bad at high res?

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Published on 2010-04-25T05:03:43Z Indexed on 2010/04/25 5:13 UTC
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Cleartype is great when displaying small text 10 - 16px

HOWEVER when you display something above 20px it start's looking like shit.

Just compare it to Photoshop. Photoshop rendering at small size is not very impressive, too blurry. But if you compare it at 20px + Photoshop wins all the time. Cleartype looks jaggy around the edges, almost like there is no cleartype at all.

Can this be fixed, or is it just the way cleartype is?

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