Turning off font smoothing system wide?

[gyus]

I hate Apple font smoothing, prior to 10.9, I've successfully used the following terminal command to turn it off (the option in system preferences does not work)

defaults write .GlobalPreferences AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 72

So fonts smaller than 72 get spared apples fuzzy font.

Unfortunately In mavericks this fails. So tried:

defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0

still doesn't work. Has anyone figured out a way or could suggest a terminal command that will turn off anti-aliasing system wide, I'll be happy just to be able to turn it off in safari.

 

[pitek]

I'll be happy just to be able to turn it off in safari.

Did you find a workable way to turning off font smoothing??

 

[gyus]

Unfortunately, no I haven't.

 

[bobdamnit]

You mean this?

 

[gyus]

The option in system preferences does not turn off anti-aliasing.

 

[BrianBaughn]

I don't think it can be done. I know that if you want to see what a font looks like with anti-aliasing OFF you can do it in iTerm2.

 

[Modernape]

I hate Apple font smoothing, ...

The System Prefs option turns off font-smoothing, as your OP requested.