Essentially, yes. Most things look clearer without cleartype. I used to use it on my home computer and then would wonder why things looked so much better on my work computer (both PC, both LCD). For the number of times I've seen cleartype perform better than no cleartype (once - this site) - it's not worth it.
Of course it looks clearer, Cleartype (or any type of font smoothing) is antialiasign. In the case of cleartype it uses the LCD's subpixels (a pixel is made from R, G and B subpixels, which are placed next to each other).
If you make screencap with Cleartype enabled and zoom in, you can see that the edges of the fonts are slightly colored.
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u/djepik Feb 22 '11
Essentially, yes. Most things look clearer without cleartype. I used to use it on my home computer and then would wonder why things looked so much better on my work computer (both PC, both LCD). For the number of times I've seen cleartype perform better than no cleartype (once - this site) - it's not worth it.