How to avoid Silverlight ugly fonts?

Question

I'd like to show some client that Silverlight can be used as a technology for BL apps.
They were shocked that some firm waste the money for so crappy looking technology (it's about MS)...

I just presented a screen with a few TextBoxes and some other controls...

Any size of the font in pixels or pts I use (or TextHintingMode), with embedding the font as a resource (or not) - the result is all the time very poor. It looks really crappy !!!

Is it possible that after four versions of Silverlight Microsoft doesn't know how to render some text looking readable?

Or maybe I just don't know how to prepare TextBox with sharp and clear Tahoma font.

Any ideas?

Magnified sample from client's TextBox is below:

Answer 1

Have a look the following article: http://10rem.net/blog/2010/06/06/wpf-and-silverlight-choose-your-fonts-and-text-rendering-options-wisely

The font you're using may not be optimized for the size you're displaying it at.