Fonts (why do they look like they do?)

[Sirrel Squirrel]

Just using my parents' iMac and the fonts all have a sort of bulbous look, how can I make the fonts look like they do on a Windows computer?

Hope you guys know what I mean

 

[Moredhel]

OSX Anti-aliases its fonts. Much like Windows XP with cleartype turned on. Unfortunately there's no way of turning it off. You can however set the threashold at which it wont do it to like size 32, so only fonts over that will be anti-aliased. You can do it in the appearance settings in System Preferences.

 

[Sirrel Squirrel]

Cheers for that, was driving me crazy

 

[Jonny69]

Is this why fonts in Linux appear fuzzy too? Is there a way to turn it off in there?

 

[shifty_uk]

Fonts look so much nicer on OSX imo.

 

[RandomTom]

Fonts look so much nicer on OSX imo.

Totally agree, I love the beautifully anti-aliased text

 

[punky_munky]

OSX Anti-aliases its fonts. Much like Windows XP with cleartype turned on. Unfortunately there's no way of turning it off. You can however set the threashold at which it wont do it to like size 32, so only fonts over that will be anti-aliased. You can do it in the appearance settings in System Preferences.

That only goes as high as 12 doesn't it? Anyways, I don't know why anyone would want it turned off.

 

[mortals]

I disabled the anti aliasing in osx as the fonts seemed to be blurred etc