21 Aug
2007
21 Aug
'07
9:01 a.m.
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".
Thanks in advance
21 Aug
21 Aug
6:54 p.m.
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.html
Report back what you find!
Thanks,
j.
9:25 p.m.
On Aug 21, 2007, at 2:54 PM, Jay Soffian wrote:
On Aug 21, 2007, at 5:10 AM, James Hicks wrote:
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?
thomas Aylott — subtleGradient — CrazyEgg — bundleForge
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. 
9:34 p.m.
defaults write com.macromates.textmate AppleFontSmoothing -float 0.5
appears to work.
5 Sep
5 Sep
3:45 a.m.
On Aug 21, 2007, at 8:54 PM, Jay Soffian wrote:
[...]
(Aside, does anyone understand the difference between the
preferences under Library/Preferences and those under Library/
Preferences/ByHost?)
Generally settings should be machine (host) independent, but e.g. the
font smoothing preference may depend on your current hardware display
(e.g. sub-pixel anti-alias is not available for CRT displays) and is
therefor stored as “only for this host”.
This appears to be implemented by storing the host-specific
preference as ByHost/«regular app identifier».«host id».plist.
This would be useful in an environment where different machines boot
using a shared user folder.
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