Timeline for Is there a way to make the terminal's font less blurry?
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| Dec 18, 2016 at 8:39 | comment | added | Chris Page | Note that in OS X El Capitan 10.11, Terminal automatically reduces the font smoothing for light-on-dark text and ignores the AppleFontSmoothing preference in that case. As of macOS Sierra 10.12 it now reduces the font smoothing relative to the AppleFontSmoothing value, so the preference once again controls the smoothing of light-on-dark text, but it also automatically reduces the smoothing some. On Retina displays it does not automatically reduce the smoothing at all, and just uses the AppleFontSmoothing value as-is. | |
| S Nov 18, 2016 at 19:06 | history | suggested | Michaelangel007 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added instructions to disable font smoothing since OP uses MacVim
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| Nov 18, 2016 at 17:52 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Oct 7, 2015 at 18:13 | comment | added | pschang | This doesn't seem to work in El Capitan. :( | |
| Jan 24, 2015 at 23:19 | comment | added | timbo | I agree that the fond smoothing does make the type overly bold and Ubuntu has much better terminal fonts. With font smoothing turned on however, I find that changing the color to less than a pure white and setting the opacity to about 85% make for a much more readable font. | |
| Apr 13, 2014 at 13:12 | comment | added | 0942v8653 | @RontogiannisAristofanis Added to the answer. | |
| Apr 13, 2014 at 13:08 | history | edited | 0942v8653 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
app-specific added
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| Apr 13, 2014 at 12:18 | comment | added | Rontogiannis Aristofanis | @0942v8653 sorry to annoy you again, but is there a way to turn off/on the LCD font smoothing in specific applications? | |
| Apr 13, 2014 at 11:25 | comment | added | 0942v8653 | @Agos Arguably. It just makes the font look thicker to most people. The implementation has everything to do with it. It sure looks nice but becomes difficult to read. Ubuntu's antialiasing (in the screenshot) seems better than either of Apple's rendering styles -- it's between ClearType and Mac antialiasing. However, it does keep the font integrity nice so at high DPI it looks very good. But once you get your resolution @ 2x, it doesn't really matter. | |
| Apr 13, 2014 at 8:24 | comment | added | Agos | Apple's implementation of subpixel antialiasing/rendering may not be flawless, but it's arguably the best out there. Antialiasing / font smoothing preferences are a personal taste and it's quite common for switchers to not like Mac OS X's default, but it has nothing to do with the implementation. | |
| Apr 13, 2014 at 7:35 | vote | accept | Rontogiannis Aristofanis | ||
| Apr 13, 2014 at 3:01 | history | edited | 0942v8653 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 12, 2014 at 23:26 | history | answered | 0942v8653 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |