Any way to disable font smoothing in Big Sur?

[tornado99]

I've found out that proper display calibration does the trick. I have a few years old calibration profile for my display, and I've just activated it after moving to Big Sur. It's outdated for professional work though, and I have to calibrate display again, but that ugly font smoothing is definitely gone.

Display calibration has no effect on font smoothing. It may have a minor effect on contrast, but it doesn't change the way the OS rasterizes the glyphs.

 

[nebojsak]

I don't know, but difference is obvious for me. From fat puffy blurry fonts to absolutely normal preview.

 

[guitarguy316]

Are you guys trying to font smoothing off?

 

[Fred Zed]

font smoothing on my MBP was set to 0 via terminal window. I did compare it to my wife's same spec model MBP and there is a difference. Her fonts look bolder and darker on default value. Initially I thought my panel was off due to variance but I then recall having had changed the font smoothing values 🤣