Hi,
I have two MBP's, one running Lion and one running Mountain Lion. The one running ML is about a year newer, but they're more-or-less identical. Neither are "retina."
I use Monaco 10pt. in pretty much everything, and turn off anti-aliasing. In terminal, the font looks the same on both computers; but in TextEdit, Text Mate, and jEdit, the text under ML is various levels of thick/blurry and jagged.
I also have a small Geektool running on both computers, which uses Monaco 9pt. On the computer running Lion this looks fine; under ML it looks like a totally different font and is barely readable. The same is true for all fixed-width/monospaced fonts.
The font options in effected applications on both computers are the same. My "LCD Font Smoothing" is turned on and set to disable on size 4 or smaller. I've tried changing the "defaults -g set AppleFontSmoothing..." values, but they don't seem to make any difference. Those were never set on the computer running Lion:
$ defaults read -g AppleFontSmoothing
2013-10-08 23:01:00.917 defaults[28865:707]
The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleFontSmoothing) does not exist
I also have an iMac running ML, and the fonts look good on there (they look the same as on the MBP running Lion). I don't think this is an ML issue.
http://i.imgur.com/DUfzuT6.png <- Lion
http://i.imgur.com/U0tlAib.png <- Mountain Lion
Is there some option I'm overlooking that can fix this?
Thanks.
I have two MBP's, one running Lion and one running Mountain Lion. The one running ML is about a year newer, but they're more-or-less identical. Neither are "retina."
I use Monaco 10pt. in pretty much everything, and turn off anti-aliasing. In terminal, the font looks the same on both computers; but in TextEdit, Text Mate, and jEdit, the text under ML is various levels of thick/blurry and jagged.
I also have a small Geektool running on both computers, which uses Monaco 9pt. On the computer running Lion this looks fine; under ML it looks like a totally different font and is barely readable. The same is true for all fixed-width/monospaced fonts.
The font options in effected applications on both computers are the same. My "LCD Font Smoothing" is turned on and set to disable on size 4 or smaller. I've tried changing the "defaults -g set AppleFontSmoothing..." values, but they don't seem to make any difference. Those were never set on the computer running Lion:
$ defaults read -g AppleFontSmoothing
2013-10-08 23:01:00.917 defaults[28865:707]
The domain/default pair of (kCFPreferencesAnyApplication, AppleFontSmoothing) does not exist
I also have an iMac running ML, and the fonts look good on there (they look the same as on the MBP running Lion). I don't think this is an ML issue.
http://i.imgur.com/DUfzuT6.png <- Lion
http://i.imgur.com/U0tlAib.png <- Mountain Lion
Is there some option I'm overlooking that can fix this?
Thanks.