What is your preferred font smoothing setting?

[TheSpaz]

If you go into System Preferences>Appearance>Font Smoothing Style, You'll see a drop down menu with different choices. I think the best looking font smoothing type is "Standard - best for CRT". I've tried all the other styles and they don't look good to me. I think the other styles look too sharp, too bold and I don't like colored pixels around the edge of my text.

By the way, in Snow Leopard, there's only 2 options now. It's just a checkbox that says:

[ ] LCD Font Smoothing

When checked, it acts like "Medium - best for flat panel" and when unchecked it acts like "Standard - best for CRT"

What is your favorite font smoothing style?

Note: For changes to take effect, you have to quit and relaunch your apps to see the difference.

 

[TheSpaz]

By the way... here's why I like the CRT setting:

Standard - best for CRT:

Medium - Best for flat panel

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[MadGoat]

umm, Setting 4 with Use LCD font smoothing when available checked

 

[TheSpaz]

umm, Setting 4 with Use LCD font smoothing when available checked

You don't think that text looks bad in my sample #2?

 

[Robert Johnson]

You don't think that text looks bad in my sample #2?

The LCD (subpixel) font rendering is designed for dark glyphs on a light background.

If you want to read a lot of light text on dark, especially in dark themes or inverse video or for accessibility, choosing "Light" will do less damage while keeping the subpixel rendering.

Otherwise you can go back to "Standard" (non subpixel) rendering, which definitely gives a more delicate, lightweight look to your light-on-dark text.