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copied!<p>I'm going to guess that it's because you're using <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.graphics.drawstring.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>Graphics.DrawString()</code></a> instead of <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.textrenderer.drawtext%28v=vs.110%29.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>TextRenderer.DrawText()</code></a>. The former paints text using GDI+ which is sort of crappy and outdated. The latter uses GDI which is more modern (in terms of text rendering). I believe this is the difference noted by the previous answer (WinForms vs. Windows).</p> <p>You might also try the overload of <code>Graphics.DrawString()</code> that takes a <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.stringformat%28v=vs.110%29.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>StringFormat</code></a> object and specify <code>StringFormat.GenericTypographic</code>. However, this is really a bit of a hack around the problem. If you're using .NET 2.0 or later, you should be using the <code>TextRenderer</code> class instead of the crappy <code>Graphics</code> class for all of your text rendering needs. <code>Graphics.MeasureString()</code> and <code>Graphics.DrawString()</code> exist strictly for backwards compatibility with .NET 1.0 and 1.1.</p> <p>edit: Oh yeah, and your code leaks a GDI object on every paint cycle. Brush objects are managed wrappers around unmanaged resources thus they must be explicitly disposed.</p>

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