Subpixel antialiasing for 1080p screens?

[EightyTwenty]

Anyone running Catalina on a 1080p screen (or sub-retina).

Mojave apparently had issues with font rendering at lower PPI compared to High Sierra. Curious about Catalina.

Thanks.

 

[The Phazer]

It's exactly the same, Apple ruined it on purpose.

 

[PR.]

Coming from a 2010 iMac running High Sierra at 2560x1440 to a 2018 Mac mini running 3440x1440 first with Mojave and now Catalina, both being less than Retina PPI my opinion is the font rendering looks the same.

The only place I see where it doesn't look great is the Catalyst apps, in Mojave the News app had fuzzy text and in Catalina is still looks pretty fuzzy but unlike the Mojave version the laggy responsiveness seems to have been cleaned up a bit in Catalina.

 

[MiniMoney]

In Catalina it’s worse. I have a 2017 MacBook Air and the following command made the fonts acceptable in Mojave:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3

This no longer works in Catalina.

 

[shinji]

In Catalina it’s worse. I have a 2017 MacBook Air and the following command made the fonts acceptable in Mojave:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3

This no longer works in Catalina.

Having the same problem. Logged out/back in and had run this command first:

defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool false

2018 Mini and 23" Apple Cinema Display running at 1920x1080, connected with Apple's DVI->HDMI adapter.

I may just buy a new monitor at this point.

 

[MiniMoney]

In Catalina it’s worse. I have a 2017 MacBook Air and the following command made the fonts acceptable in Mojave:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3

This no longer works in Catalina.

UPDATE:

I just installed Catalina to a blank external hard drive using the same computer. The fonts looked acceptable as they did in Mojave. Apparently my current Mojave font settings don't mix well with the Catalina upgrade. Does anyone know of a way to do a dump of all font related settings so I can compare them between Mojave and Catalina?

 

[shinji]

UPDATE:

I just installed Catalina to a blank external hard drive using the same computer. The fonts looked acceptable as they did in Mojave. Apparently my current Mojave font settings don't mix well with the Catalina upgrade. Does anyone know of a way to do a dump of all font related settings so I can compare them between Mojave and Catalina?

This is what I did (logout/login between each):

defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing

defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool YES

and it did improve compared to how it looked immediately after upgrading.

 

[MiniMoney]

This is what I did (logout/login between each):

defaults -currentHost delete -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing

defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool YES

and it did improve compared to how it looked immediately after upgrading.

Thanks for the instructions. My fonts are now back to Mojave quality.