# Whoa, the bold font, it's blurred **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [October 5, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-bold-font-its-blurred/35812 "2000-10-05T18:10:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-bold-font-its-blurred/35812/1 "2000-10-05T18:10:11Z")
I guess y’all just changed the font or something for bold text? **Right now it’s all blurry.** I like the new “info bar” added at the bottom of the forum screens though. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-bold-font-its-blurred/35812/2 "2000-10-05T19:43:40Z")
Clean your glasses. I don’t see anything blurry. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-bold-font-its-blurred/35812/3 "2000-10-05T20:00:10Z")
This sounds like it’s probably a browser issue, not the board. Did you recently swith from Netscape to IE or vice versa, or upgrade to a newer version? Most webpages typically contain the minimum information needed to recreate the page. For instance, the HTML code will say “bold”, but it won’t say “bold in such-and-such a font”. The browser takes care of these details. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-bold-font-its-blurred/35812/4 "2000-10-06T02:48:51Z")
I must be hallucinating then. But it definitely looks just slightly blurry to me. This probably means one of three things. My monitor is crapping out. My eyes are crapping out (it’s not that though, because nothing else looks blurred), or Bill Gates has some sort of personal vendetta against me and has secretly manipulated the font displaying mechanism in my system. I’m going for #3. ---
**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-bold-font-its-blurred/35812/5 "2000-10-06T13:29:42Z")
That would be the smart money bet, neuroman. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-bold-font-its-blurred/35812/6 "2000-10-09T21:58:54Z")
It stopped. That was really freakin’ weird. Actually, it wasn’t just the bold fonts on SDMB. It was all the bold fonts on my system, including word processing programs and the like. They were blurry for several days, and now they have mysteriously gone back to normal. 😕 Definitely a ghost in the machine . . . ---
**Author:** ![Louie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c68b51/32.png) [@Louie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Louie)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-bold-font-its-blurred/35812/7 "2000-10-19T00:29:39Z")
Go to Start, Settings, then Folder Options. Then click on the View tab and on the list of options go to the bottom. One of the options under Visual Settings is “Smooth edges of screen fonts” or in your case, blurry fonts. Check it on or off then click okay and that should solve that problem. ---
**Author:** ![MysteryFellow63427](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a88e4f/32.png) [@MysteryFellow63427](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MysteryFellow63427)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whoa-the-bold-font-its-blurred/35812/8 "2000-10-19T16:05:33Z")
I looked at the setting you are talking about. It was not selected. When I set it on, it blurred the fonts in exactly the manner I was describing before. My computer will occasionally do funny things with some of the system settings like this, like show a winamp (mp3) icon on a .jpg file, etc., but they go away after a time. Thanks for helping to track down the exact orifice out of which Windows was blowing air.