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peor

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Feb 12, 2013
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Hi guys!

Looking at the shop, Retina MacBook Pro fonts looks less thick than the Non-Retina.

Since there are 3 (or 4) options to change the font thickness in OS X I was wondering which one is the default one for Retina MBP? Maybe someone could make some screenshots to see the optical differences? Also which one do you prefer most on Retina screen?

Thank you ;)



To change font thickness write in Terminal:



Light

Code:
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 1





Medium

Code:
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2




Hard

Code:
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3



(probably without sub-pixel rendering):

Code:
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 4
 

robvas

macrumors 68040
Mar 29, 2009
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USA
You can just disable font smoothing in Preferences if you have a Retina screen.
 
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