Mac blury fonts
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- raf0
I moved to OSX 4 years ago from a non-antialiased XP. I turned of antialiasing on the mac and was shocked the fonts were completely unprepared for it. Helvetica, Helvetica Neue, even Lucida Grande – they all were not pixel display ready as Windows fonts were.
When on a mac, you must use antialiasing, everyone told me surprised I tried switching it off.
- johnnnnyh0
raf, so in essence then that's how it should look? I mean FF looks better than Safari, but neither look crisp to me. I'm just surprised more people don't take issue with this. I'm struggling to read a lot a the (small) text on my Mac.
- This is an article from when I was getting used to my first mac: http://www.xvsxp.com…raf
- raf0
Give it some time, you will have a problem looking at Windows rendering. It's all what you're used to.
- raf0
- 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 . . .
- raf0
Safari also has weird kerning on QBN. Firefox's kerning of Verdana looks a bit better.
- oooooooooohya0
I've always hated this issue of fonts. Mac vs PC.
- 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.
- 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
- ethanfink0
This is what mac users like to see... we are not coders, but designers.
- 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.
- erikjonsson0
i had that too switching to osx. sucks
- johnnnnyh0
So the above does look wrong?
- 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
- 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
- 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
Yes, anti aliasing - font rendering, quartz whatever.
I'll post a pic - hang on!
- rascuache0
Seriously, post a screenshot so everyone knows what you're talking about...