[TxMt] Re: Font is blurry on dark background.

Daniel Stockman daniel.stockman at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 19:46:33 UTC 2009


> I'm experiencing very annoying trouble out here. My font rendering  
> is kind
> of blurry when it comes to dark backgrounds. Here's a screenshot using
> Swyphs II color theme. My rendering is on the top of the screenshot,
> author's is at the bottom, after the red line.
>
> http://berkana18.com/screen.jpg
>
> Font smoothing in system perferences is set to 'Automatic', and i'm on
> Leopard, 23" ACD.

You might try changing the smoothing value to "Light"; I've found the  
"Automatic" setting to be rather mushy on LCDs. On displays inferior  
to the Cinema Display (a pair of Dells at work, for example), I've  
just gotten used to a certain amount of fuzziness. :/

~ Daniel



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