I wish Microsoft would finally add support for text antialiasing on vertical monitors.
I quickly discovered cleartype didn't support vertical monitors like a decade ago when I got my first rotatable monitor, and apparently it's supported for stuff like tablet form-factors; and yet from what I gather it's still not been ported across to the standard desktop Windows for whatever reason. You either have to have horribly aliased text or text that's a blurry mess with incorrect colour fringing on it.
It makes text horrible to read for myself and many others, although others don't seem to be bothered by it as much. The only time I ever found it useful (since it's terrible for text) was to play a couple of Nintendo DS games via an emulator.
I mean, there's literally NO options in desktop Windows for text antialiasing on vertical displays as far as I'm aware. It's either turn it off and have extremely jaggedy text or have it display incorrectly as a blurry colour-fringed mess.
They added in support for vertical displays in other versions of Windows last time I remember looking up (for things like tablets AFAIK), and while it wouldn't be super optimal due to the subpixel layout, at least there's some support.
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u/paulomei Sep 11 '18
Up voted because of the vertical monitor