Improve fonts on Yosemite!

[davenport4]

I've noticed that the new font on 10.10 DP1 seems kind of washed out, especially in the menus on my 27" Thunderbolt display. I used the following command in the terminal to increase the font smoothing and it seemed to make a slight improvement.

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3

It really helped in Safari.

Hope this might help someone else who maybe having difficulty reading the new font at default setting.

 

[SmOgER]

Re-enabling the font smoothing in preferences should have the same effect if this helped you as 3 is a very conservative value.


I think there is something more fundamental about font rendering issue, as even in WIN8.1 VirtualBox machine in some places fonts smoothing doesn't work (was good on Mavericks).

Maybe video drivers?

 

[davenport4]

Re-enabling the font smoothing in preferences should have the same effect if this helped you.

The preference sets the value to 2 and not 3. You have to manually set it to 3 with terminal. Three being the strongest setting.