On Aug 21, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Jay Soffian wrote:
On Aug 21, 2007, at 5:10 AM, James Hicks wrote:
I love how Monaco 11 looks like against my dark TM background when in the "light" smoothing style. However I can't stand the rest of the OS text and especially Helvetica in Safari and prefer those to be in "standard" style, they all just look too fat in "light" while Monaco looks anaemic in "standard".
You can try this. Quit TextMate:
% defaults write com.macromates.textmate AppleFontSmoothing -int 1
That should enable light smoothing for TextMate only.
I haven't tested this, but I did find that the AppleFontSmoothing preference changes in my Library/Preferences/ ByHost/.GlobalPreferences.<hex>.plist file when I adjust the preference in the the Appearance system preference panel (it changes in com.apple.systempreferences.plist as well, but I doubt that affects anything but the preference pane).
(Aside, does anyone understand the difference between the preferences under Library/Preferences and those under Library/ Preferences/ByHost?)
There might be other knobs as well. I found this page, but it's over 5 years old:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0100148/stories/2002/02/04/macOsX1012FontRendering....
Report back what you find!
Thanks, j.
WOW! That totally works! That looks a LOT better.
This also works: defaults write com.macromates.textmate AppleFontSmoothing -int 0
But it's MUCH lighter, maybe a bit too light, that one. Something in between would be best. Do you think you could do 0.5? What would be the syntax for that?
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