Wednesday, January 02, 2013

xcode ugly font: turn on anti alias

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3


Changing the 3 at the end will control how much anti-aliasing happens on the fonts and may range from 0-3 I believe. 0 being off, 1 being light anti-aliasing and 3 being heavy anti-aliasing. The OS should also remember this setting for your monitor so you should only have to change it once.
This is a bug in Snow Leopard. This could be changed in system preferences prior to 10.6 but now 10.6 tries to figure out the best setting for your monitor on its own and does not get it right most of the time.

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