Out of focus?

[surfsofa]

Something's changed between Catalina and Big Sur. Fonts seem very slightly blurred on my 27" iMac, which I definitely don't recall from before the upgrade. It's very subtle, but pretty consistent across Apple apps.

Do you see what I see?

 

[Mythos99]

Here is a solution

Any way to disable font smoothing in Big Sur?

This works for me: defaults -currentHost write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 0 You have to log out (perhaps even reboot) to see the changes across the entire desktop. I used to disable font smoothing in System Preferences → General prior to Big Sur, which is not possible anymore. Disabling it...

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[surfsofa]

Worked, thank you! I wonder why they changed it. I certainly didn't alter any settings.