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

[chad gulley]

On Apr 8, 2009, at Apr 8, 2009  |  2:46 PM, Daniel Stockman wrote:

>> 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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I've tried many different fonts in an attempt to try and solve the  
blurry fonts on a dark background.  Every time I end up turning anti- 
alias off.  Anti-alias on a white background is beautiful, but it just  
blurs too much for me on a black one.  I haven't had any luck with the  
font smoothing.  Maybe I'm doing something wrong though.  If anyone  
has an advice on this I would appreciate the comments too!

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chad