Tiger fonts look goofy

[SilentPanda]

So everything appears to be working alright except for some of my fontage in Safari. I've rebooted and such... I don't really know a lot about fonts though. Before I installed Tiger the fonts were much more defined and now they look sorta sloppy. Anybody have any ideas? This is off an "Upgrade" install but I have also looked at 2 "wipe and installs" and it looks the same... It just looks like there is some "fuzz" at the bottom of some of the letters.

 

[JeDiBoYTJ]

yup. Im getting the same thing. Anyone find a way to fix it? I tried reducing the font smoothing and such, but that didnt help.

 

[sendtodave]

Me too

Exactly the same issue on my G5. 10.4.1 update anytime soon...?

 

[JoshH]

That's weird, I seem to be ok.

 

[7on]

Could be the font you are using, I get it too btw.

 

[nomore]

If you had MS Office installed on Panther, then web browsers etc. would have use the MS fonts supplied with that, which, IMO, are better than the Apple supplied fonts.

 

[aria505]

I had this exact problem too from a clean install. I tried changing the fonts that are used and it didn't change anything.

But it did get fixed for me after i rebooted. So i'm surprised that its not fixed for you yet. I can't remember if i changed anything before the reboot, but i believe that i have everything that i messd with back to the default settings.

It was a system wide problem for me, not just safari, because my irc client also had these thick and messy fonts for everything.

 

[starnox]

So everything appears to be working alright except for some of my fontage in Safari. I've rebooted and such... I don't really know a lot about fonts though. Before I installed Tiger the fonts were much more defined and now they look sorta sloppy. Anybody have any ideas? This is off an "Upgrade" install but I have also looked at 2 "wipe and installs" and it looks the same... It just looks like there is some "fuzz" at the bottom of some of the letters.

looks normal to me. That's what it looks like on my computer and I have Panther.

 

[MBHockey]

Yeah....i had this too.

It's caused by the new way OS X handles font smoothing.

To make the fonts look like they did in Panther go to system preferences --> appearance --> and for Font Smoothing style, set it for Standard, instead of Automatic.

Not sure why the default font smoothing for 10.4 is Automatic...it's a bit too much for me, and many others, it seems.

 

[sendtodave]

I tried playing with the font smoothing to no effect, also restarting with the same results... Certainly didn't have this problem pre-Tiger, so not really sure what to do at this point...