Don't forget to turn off your font smoothing

[ctjack]

I liked my M1 fonts better than MBP 14, but forgot that i used turning off of font smoothing back in the day.

Stumbled upon again today and did to MBP 14 - what a blessing.

Don't forget that we have instructions on our website: https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/disable-font-smoothing-in-macos-big-sur/

Works for anything since BigSur.

 

[sparkhill]

Thank you. I forgot this and I am much happier today with smoothing off.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Simple Terminal commands…but someone made an app for that.

Font Smoothing Adjuster | macOS App

Download the free and open source Font Smoothing Adjuster app to disable or customise font smoothing on macOS Big Sur.

www.fontsmoothingadjuster.com

 

[Surfsalot]

Don’t get it what’s the diff?

 

[Tagbert]

Don’t get it what’s the diff?

It improves the detail and crispness of small text by turning off an extra smoothing pass in the rendering.

 

[adildacoolset]

Don’t get it what’s the diff?

When displaying text with font smoothing, the OS inserts extra shaded and coloured pixels when drawing text to make it appear smoother, but adds some extra fuzziness to the text. People turn it off to remove the fuzziness as the need for smoothing is reduced in retina displays. It’s really subjective and many people refer it turned off, but if you can’t tell the difference, I’d say just leave it on as it’s one less unnecessary setting to play around with.