# snowie2000/mactype

Better font rendering for Windows.

Repository: https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mactype
Homepage: https://mactype.net
Language: C++
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: mactype, directwrite, font-rendering, font
Last push: 2026-04-29T03:00:50+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 65/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 79, release rhythm 28, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4171, "days_push": 126, "days_rel": 448, "gap_med": 72.0, "n_releases_24m": 5}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11921, forks 448 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:50.493939+00:00)

## What it is
MacType is a Windows application that improves font rendering system-wide by hooking into GDI and DirectWrite text rendering. It provides smoother, macOS-like font appearance with configurable profiles and a tuning utility.

## Use cases
- make windows fonts look smoother
- improve font rendering on windows 11
- get mac-like font smoothing on windows
- fix blurry or jagged text rendering
- customize directwrite font rendering
- enable color font support system-wide

## When to choose
- you want better-looking text across all Windows applications
- you find Windows default font rendering too thin or jagged
- you need per-application DirectWrite tuning

## When to avoid
- you use Office 2013, which uses its own rendering engine
- antimalware software conflicts with DLL injection and you cannot use Service Mode
- you are not on Windows - it is Windows-only

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: graphics, gui, configuration-management
- domain: windows, desktop-applications, graphics
- platform: windows, cpp
- tags: font-rendering, directwrite, freetype, typography, system-utility

## Member repositories
- snowie2000/mactype (main) score 65

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:50.493939+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:15:04.217958+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:50.493939+00:00, sha 78ec55ba58a0)
  - homepage: https://mactype.net (fetched 2026-08-29T08:12:53.886595+00:00, sha 1c25422501f1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.