topic Re: Font appears very blurry in Desktop (Windows)

Font appears very blurry

chrike — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:12:55 GMT

Plan

Free

Country

The Netherlands

Device

Lenovo Legion y540 15IRH

Operating System

Windows 10 Pro

My Question or Issue

All fonts appear blurry, it's unbearable to look at. It also won't let me fullscreen fully.

Re: Font appears very blurry

AndrewBlizard — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 17:57:26 GMT

Find spotify.exe on your computer (should be in AppData\Roaming\Spotify), right click and open Properties. Open the Compatibility tab. Click "Change high DPI settings". Check both boxes. In the first dropdown, set it to when "I open this program". In the second dropdown, select performed by "Application". Restart Spotify completely and the blurriness should be resolved.

Re: Font appears very blurry

OverWims — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 04:10:44 GMT

Thanks. Was really annoying not being able to read anything without straining my eyes lol.

Re: Font appears very blurry

Katerina — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 14:18:53 GMT

Hey there @OverWims,

Thanks for posting here in the Community about this and glad to hear that @AndrewBlizard's post helped!

In this case, we hope you don't mind us marking that post as solution so it's more visible to users with a similar issue.

Don't hesitate to give us a shout if there's anything else we can help with - we're happy to lend a hand!

Have a lovely day 🙂

Re: Font appears very blurry

TomDod — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 09:09:57 GMT

I'm tried to do this but could not find the spotify.exe file - it doesn't show in User\AppData\Roaming\Spotify, that is just an empty folder.

Turns out Windows installs the Spotify as an 'App' in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\SpotifyAB.... This folder is not accessible in File Explorer.

From the task manager you can right-click spotify.exe, select properties and then make the changes as suggested by AndrewBlizard.

The screen scaling issue is really frustrating and I hope Spotify can fix this. Also installing as an untouchable Windows App is a pain.

Re: Font appears very blurry

AndrewBlizard — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 17:26:53 GMT

Hey Tom, looks like you installed the Windows Store version (UWP app) of Spotify. My solution applies to the standalone desktop application version. Unfortunately this blurring issue is a Windows issue, not a Spotify issue!

Re: Font appears very blurry

muchozolf — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:46:28 GMT

Known Windows issue, the same is happening in parts of Steam (the gaming platform). Yet it doesn't affect all Windows programs, so Spotify probably could fix it if they prioritized it.