Interesting. I don't have XP to test with unfortunately. ClearType is completely separate from Anti-Aliasing. How does it look if you disable Cleartype? On 7/19/2012 9:26 AM, William Robertson wrote: > Thanks Jeff, but that was the first thing I tried. The next thing was > the .conf edit from Kris Rice's blog. Neither appear to have any > effect on SQL Dev 3 running on XP with Cleartype enabled. In 11pt > Consolas a bold 'm' is a solid rectangle. > > William > > > On 19 Jul 2012, at 13:40, Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Your earlier note on 'the blocky fonts' in Oracle SQL Developer. > > Your one setting away from fixing that. > > Tools > Preferences > Code Editor > Display > Enable Text Anti-Aliasing > > We're going to make that the default selection going forward. > > Jeff > > On 7/19/2012 3:28 AM, William Robertson wrote: >> but the blocky fonts -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l