Font smoothing

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  1. radiologyman, Oct 24, 2015
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    I recently started using a mac and just found out that Apple enabled font smoothing by default. I turned it off and entire OS X looks much sharper, like removal of semitransparent film. I read that this does not disable smoothing completely. Is there a way to force OS X to turn off smoothing altogether? Is smoothing/antialiasing used on IOS? Thx!
     
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  2. lite426, Oct 24, 2015

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    Turned mine off too. Definitely sharper.
     
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  3. johny979, Oct 24, 2015

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    Where is the option tuned off?
     
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  4. radiologyman, Oct 24, 2015

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    Settings - general- bottom
     
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  5. SR71, Oct 28, 2015

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    I disabled it and am seeing no difference to when it is enabled.
     
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  6. Asthmatic Kitty, Oct 28, 2015

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    the only difference i can notice is the date/time in the menu bar. font smoothing makes it look like it's in bold, does look a bit better with font smoothing turned off.
     
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  7. radiologyman, Oct 28, 2015

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    You have to restart to see changes applied system wide. But some people are less sensitive to such things. For me it was marked improvement, it was bugging me since the day I got macbook
     
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