Font smoothing with Yosemite

[zeiter]

Hi there,

How is font smoothing on Yomemite compared to Mavericks especially on external displays and non-retina screens? What is the system font?

Thank you very much.

 

[DMojo]

Would like to know this too. Anyone with an iMac tried Yosemite? Is the font smoothing quality any different to Mavericks?

 

[yeldarbnamdlog]

I'm running Yosemite on an Early-2011 15-inch MacBook Pro, and the fonts look a tad bit sharper than Mavericks, but I suspect this will be refined in a later build.

 

[davenport4]

font quality in menus.

The quality of the fonts in menus it highly dependent on the color of your background. Light background looks great. Dark background looks terrible. Steve was a major font quality person and I know he would not be happy with Yosemite's fonts. Hopefully it improves before release.

 

[coldjeanzzz]

I refuse to upgrade if the fonts do not look smooth on non-retina displays. Deal killer for me

 

[cambookpro]

I refuse to upgrade if the fonts do not look smooth on non-retina displays. Deal killer for me

Helvetia Neue really looks no worse than Lucida Grande on non-retina displays. It isn't Ultra Light and the tracking makes it easy to read.

At the moment, the WiFi icon is a larger problem on non-retina screens. I find it really difficult to tell if it's showing connected or not.