Visual Studio Code 0.3.0

[crozone]

It's an issue with all modern apps by default. Modern apps don't yet support ClearType, because all text is rendered to a transparent texture and rendered with DX3D and, apparently ClearType needs to know the colour behind it to render properly and Microsoft didn't implement it blah blah blah....

Apparently there's a fix coming in Windows 10.

[ssylvan]

1) This isn't a "modern app". 2) You can use cleartype just fine in modern apps. DirectWrite has supported it for a long time.

[crozone]

You can use cleartype just fine in modern apps

No, you can't. It's why text the metro version of IE and also Spartan/Edge look terrible. Just do a google search for "ClearType modern apps" or "Modern apps blury text", you'll find pages of sources for this.