Finder Font Smoothing Bug?

[codeman7]

Hello! I normally run my mac with "Use LCD font smoothing when available" disabled. Personal preference.

However, I noticed on High Sierra, in the Finder, I get weird behavior with file lists. Some files get the LCD font smoothing treatment and others don't.

This has persisted through reboots and toggling the setting. Anyone else seeing this?

 

[Transgredi]

Probably buggy Metal 2, just like experienced here: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/09/macos-10-13-high-sierra-the-ars-technica-review/7/

 

[Stq]

I also noticed this! Not only in Finder, but almost in all apps, text with and without LCD smoothing are mixed, even in the Settings - General page itself, when this LCD font smoothing option is set to OFF. My UI language is Japanese. If I switch to English I see less of these LCD smoothing text but still in some places like you mentioned.

This is annoying because I use the down sampling resolution where subpixel rendering just makes no sense.

 

[Stq]

The bug report I sent to Apple was marked as duplicate. So it seems that at least Apple is already aware of this issue and we can probably expect a fix in a follwing update.