Mac blury fonts
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- johnnnnyh
Switched over to the Mac and am experiencing the joy of blury fonts on the OS. Is this normal? ClearType fonts are way more crisp. Is there anything I can do to tweak it? Although there's loads I like about OSX this font thing is really quite significant. Do those of you on Macs just live with it or is there something I'm not doing?
- meffid0
pic?
- d_rek0
Is this SERIOUS THREAD?
- johnnnnyh0
Yes, seriously. Have googled it and can't find a solution. I'm looking for a reality check too. If compared back to back the fonts on a windows computer look crisper than those on the Mac. I'm just wondering how that is "lived with".
- rascuache0
Seriously, post a screenshot so everyone knows what you're talking about...
- johnnnnyh0
Yes, anti aliasing - font rendering, quartz whatever.
I'll post a pic - hang on!
- ethanfink0
"In Figure 3, anti-aliasing was used to blend the boundary pixels of a sample graphic. This reduced the aesthetically jarring effect of the sharp, step-like boundaries that appear in the aliased graphic at the left. Anti-aliasing is often applied in rendering text on a computer screen to suggest smooth contours that better emulate the appearance of text produced by conventional ink-and-paper printing."
- johnnnnyh0
- it's anti alias bam boom :Pstinger
- The bottom one is also anti aliased. Its ClearType (win). Look at the J,P, i all look crispjohnnnnyh
- Windows one is literally a pixel font blurred a bit, Mac one is a correct rendering of a proper fontBIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD
- It is Verdana on both, only it's wider on Windowsraf
- d_rek0
looks like the wrong system font - the default for mac is typically helvetica neue. Looks like verdana?.. Not sure what's going on there... maybe check your font collections, delete duplicates and reactivate any system defaults?
- johnnnnyh0
So the above does look wrong?
- erikjonsson0
i had that too switching to osx. sucks
- johnnnnyh0
So is this font rendering a problem with my set up or is that what all Mac users see? I just find it difficult to read compared with the crisper Windows font rendering.
- ethanfink0
This is what mac users like to see... we are not coders, but designers.
- BIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD0
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Fonts are not fucking crisp on a PC, they're blocky. If you look closely that ClearType shit can't even smooth out a curve they come out stepped to fuck.You can't call yourself a designer if you prefer that colour fringed blocky shit to a well anti-aliased font
Although your QBN topic list does look wrong, what browser are you using?
Looks like this in my Safari
- johnnnnyh0
I'm very surprised if, even as designers, the preference is for less readable blurred fonts over crisper, readable ones. I'm not talking about turning off anti-aliasing (I hate that) I'm just after something which is easy to read and looks nice. Which in my opinion is the lower of the two screen shots I posted.
- oooooooooohya0
I've always hated this issue of fonts. Mac vs PC.
- raf0
Safari also has weird kerning on QBN. Firefox's kerning of Verdana looks a bit better.
- johnnnnyh0
BIGGESTDOGINTHEWORLD appreciate your screen shot but really that's not too readable for me. The fonts are fuzzy, although better than my Mac display. I'm using Safari by the way . . .