blog Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 I know there is the settings in "Appearance" but this doesn't turn off font smoothing completely. I figured out that font smoothing is what makes my text fuzzy on my LCD. I have set the settings in "Appearance" to turn off font smoothing for any text size smaller than 12 but there isn't any other larger options. This has made all my text that is smaller than 12 look totally sharp. But anything larger that 12 looks fuzzy. Does anybody know where to look for this setting? Which kexts? Which plist? Which ...? This the only thing that is keeping me from moving over from WinXP. WinXP text is razor sharp. I am about halfway there now. Cheers, Blog Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47238-i-would-like-to-disable-font-smoothing-totally/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thico Alves Posted April 2, 2007 Share Posted April 2, 2007 font smoothing is a great feature!! I don't know where to disable it or even if that's possible on MacOS. Probally it's looking fuzzy on your LCD because your resolution is set wrong. Some tipes of LCD are made to work properly in just one resolution. Other resolutions the image looks strached. Try changing your resolution on MacOS and see the results... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47238-i-would-like-to-disable-font-smoothing-totally/#findComment-338410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blog Posted April 2, 2007 Author Share Posted April 2, 2007 Already running in native rez. 1680*1050. Image is not being stretched. Both OS X and my monitors menu are telling me 1680*1050. Font size is ok, the same as in WinXP. Looks perfectly sharp in WinXp but very hard on the eyes in OS X. It is probably the fact that Nvidia cards have been hacked into OS X to make them work. I have it working satisfactory for now by doing what I did in my prior post. Thanks anyway, Blog Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47238-i-would-like-to-disable-font-smoothing-totally/#findComment-338692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiTRiP Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Same here....on my new 26" display the fonts looks a bit fuzzy. While in Windows its damn sharp. (also in Parallels) I allready set font smoothing to LIGHT in system prefs and it helps a bit. But would like to disable it totally... BiTRiP Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/47238-i-would-like-to-disable-font-smoothing-totally/#findComment-833880 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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