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Font smoothing on OS X (snow leopard)

For some reason, the font rendering on external screens result orrible unless the light version of font anti-aliasing method is set in System Preferences / Appearance . Unfortunately, Apple have removed this option from the System Preferences pane but there is a command line solution for this.

Open a terminal and type the following command:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 1

or, in order to get exactly the same result as on an Apple cinema Display:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2
osxfont.1255338485.txt.gz · Last modified: 2009/10/12 09:08 by cangiani