Saturday, August 22, 2009

Fix ugly thick fonts

Default Mac OS X settings make some fonts look ug-lee. Read JWZ's post for some details. Some fonts end up looking thicker and more jagged than they should be.

Here's how my Terminal and NetNewsWire looked when I had to re-install my Mac:



And after the fix, here's how they look now:



What fixed this? Go to System Preferences > Appearance and set Font Smoothing Style to "Standard".

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