Yiasou,

I don't have tiger installed yet, but I think your issue looks like something discussed here: http://www.subtraction.com/archives/2005/0502_tiger_blemis.php

You can read through that, this was the 'solution' post and the response by the original poster on how he got that solution to work.

SOLUTION: I have a hunch as to what's causing it, but I could certainly be wrong.

Tiger has a new option under System Preferences > Appearance > Font Smoothing Style: Automatic. It also turns this option on by default. I wonder if what it is automatically choosing for your Powerbook is not what you are used to? ---

HOW IT WORKED FOR ORIGINAL POSTER: =================== Jeff Croft: You win the gold star. I went to the Appearance preference pane and changed Font Smoothing to "Standard - best for CRT." At first it didn't do anything, then I rebooted and now everything is elegant again. There are other settings too which I didn't fiddle with, "Light," "Medium - best for Flat Panel" and "Strong." I suspect that when it was on "Automatic" previously it was selecting "Medium." Anyway, in my experience all this stuff is subjective; everyone sees it differently. I actually know a friend who thinks that Windows' font smoothing approach -- ClearType, or whatever it is, I don't recall -- looks great. A real person! ---

Hope that helps, -steve

Georgos Siganos wrote:

Hi all, I have a bizarre problem with the fonts in the recent betas. | have attached a capture of 1.1b5 (the grey background) and 1.1b8 (the white background) that shows for the same settings and font, the difference between these two versions. In 1.1b8 the font appears to be strongly smoothed. Does anyone have any idea why this is happening? I am running 10.4 Thanks, Georgos

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Jeff Croft: You win the gold star. I went to the Appearance preference pane and changed Font Smoothing to "Standard - best for CRT." At first it didn't do anything, then I rebooted and now everything is elegant again. There are other settings too which I didn't fiddle with, "Light," "Medium - best for Flat Panel" and "Strong." I suspect that when it was on "Automatic" previously it was selecting "Medium." Anyway, in my experience all this stuff is subjective; everyone sees it differently. I actually know a friend who thinks that Windows' font smoothing approach -- ClearType, or whatever it is, I don't recall -- looks great. A real person!

Yes, ClearType looks very good on an LCD screen, which is what it is designed for. Likewise, "Medium" looks IMO best on Mac LCD's, since it starts doing subpixel rendering at that level, which improves the perceived horizontal resolution by up to x3.