For some reason the font in some programs (like Cent) changes after v1703. The font also renders better, both on desktop, and in programs (and I've changed most things to ' Microsoft Sans Serif' like in Windows XP). There's no way to get explorer to be as it was pre-1803 without setting the system to 'light mode', which changes all the Metro/Modern UI to light mode, whereas before it would be in dark mode. I'm also on Windows 10 v1703 because newer versions of the OS (well, beyond 1803) change the look of Explorer (to support dark mode) and how Windows handles dark/light mode between system/apps. If you're confused, they're displayed in the order I listed them above. The downgrade in later Cent should be obvious even without labeling due to the aberration artifacting. Here's a comparison of my current Vivalid version, the latest Cent, and 3.0.4: Yes, Cent still has an option to disable directwrite, but it changed after 3.0.4, and that change was for the worse.

The color/contrast Cent 3.0.4's theme is great, the look of it is great, and the GDI rendering is way better than any version of Cent passed this point.

I'm still over here using Cent 3.0.4 (from 2017) with multiple websites broken (notably logging-in, like on Steam, Twitch or Disqus to name a few).

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