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Font smoothing is messed up too. For some utterly inexplicable reason, starting with Big Sur Apple turned on font smoothing by default, and then removed the tog

Font smoothing is messed up too. For some utterly inexplicable reason, starting with Big Sur Apple turned on font smoothing by default, and then removed the toggle in settings to turn it off, despite the fact that it looks like complete crap. However, you can run a Terminal command to disable it again, which works great...except for the new version of Safari, where all the fonts look ridiculously bold [0] [0] https://imgur.com/a/IJBGjHu https://imgur.com/a/IJBGjHu The top comment of this thread; Safari on the left, Firefox on the right.

baxuz 6y ago
What do you mean by "font smoothing"? Subpixel antialiasing has been disabled and steadily pruned from the OS since Mojave if that's what you're talking about: https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/ https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/
- deergomoo 6y ago
  I think it's separate to subpixel anti-aliasing. It's whatever was controlled by the old "Use LCD font smoothing where available" in System Preferences > General. With that toggle gone, it can still be toggled using the "AppleFontSmoothing" defaults key.
StavrosK 6y ago
Jeez, imgur sucks. I looked for a minute at an unrelated meme trying to figure out where in its comments your example was, and then I noticed the thin image at the top (yours). Turns out Imgur adds random stuff under your post, because now it's a social network and not an image host. Validates my decision to make my own image host.
- deergomoo 6y ago
  Yeah, I haven't used imgur for a while and it took me a hot second to work out how to upload an image—a button labelled "new post" is completely contrary to what imgur is in my head.
  - StavrosK 6y ago
    Yeah, and AFAIK they took out the easy-upload API as well (last time I checked). It's kind of inevitable when you have to make money, though.
- dan1234 6y ago
  That why I always prefer to share the image, not the imgur link: https://i.imgur.com/Dwd5Dzg.png https://i.imgur.com/Dwd5Dzg.png - much better!
  - StavrosK 6y ago
    This still takes me to the imgur page.
    - dan1234 6y ago
      On desktop it takes you to the image, but on mobile it seems to override it and directs you back to imgur.
auggierose 6y ago
What screen resolution are you using?
- deergomoo 6y ago
  That was taken on my external monitor which is 2560x1440 (1x scaling/non-retina). Here's a screenshot off the laptop display (2560x1600 running at 2x scaling—the "looks like 1280x800" setting): https://imgur.com/a/zS0dyF6 https://imgur.com/a/zS0dyF6 Click to zoom—imgur's thumbnails are garbage quality.
eddyg 6y ago
Try putting this in a file with a `.css` extension: * { -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased !important; } and setting it as a custom "Style sheet" in Safari's Preferences (in the "Advanced" tab). But see also: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/ https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/
- deergomoo 6y ago
  It was the Tonsky post that drove me to always making sure I had the smoothing disabled. I didn't know about the custom CSS though, thanks!
tqkxzugoaupvwqr 6y ago
After “upgrading” to Big Sur the first thing I searched for was disabling font smoothing. The default looks ridiculously ugly. I was shocked that they removed the toggle from the system preferences. Apple is all about design and then they double down on something this ugly?

baxuz 6y ago

What do you mean by "font smoothing"? Subpixel antialiasing has been disabled and steadily pruned from the OS since Mojave if that's what you're talking about: https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/ https://gankra.github.io/blah/text-hates-you/

deergomoo 6y ago
I think it's separate to subpixel anti-aliasing. It's whatever was controlled by the old "Use LCD font smoothing where available" in System Preferences > General. With that toggle gone, it can still be toggled using the "AppleFontSmoothing" defaults key.

StavrosK 6y ago

Jeez, imgur sucks. I looked for a minute at an unrelated meme trying to figure out where in its comments your example was, and then I noticed the thin image at the top (yours). Turns out Imgur adds random stuff under your post, because now it's a social network and not an image host. Validates my decision to make my own image host.

deergomoo 6y ago
Yeah, I haven't used imgur for a while and it took me a hot second to work out how to upload an image—a button labelled "new post" is completely contrary to what imgur is in my head.
- StavrosK 6y ago
  Yeah, and AFAIK they took out the easy-upload API as well (last time I checked). It's kind of inevitable when you have to make money, though.
dan1234 6y ago
That why I always prefer to share the image, not the imgur link: https://i.imgur.com/Dwd5Dzg.png https://i.imgur.com/Dwd5Dzg.png - much better!
- StavrosK 6y ago
  This still takes me to the imgur page.
  - dan1234 6y ago
    On desktop it takes you to the image, but on mobile it seems to override it and directs you back to imgur.

auggierose 6y ago

What screen resolution are you using?

deergomoo 6y ago
That was taken on my external monitor which is 2560x1440 (1x scaling/non-retina). Here's a screenshot off the laptop display (2560x1600 running at 2x scaling—the "looks like 1280x800" setting): https://imgur.com/a/zS0dyF6 https://imgur.com/a/zS0dyF6 Click to zoom—imgur's thumbnails are garbage quality.

eddyg 6y ago

Try putting this in a file with a `.css` extension: * { -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased !important; } and setting it as a custom "Style sheet" in Safari's Preferences (in the "Advanced" tab). But see also: https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/ https://tonsky.me/blog/monitors/

deergomoo 6y ago
It was the Tonsky post that drove me to always making sure I had the smoothing disabled. I didn't know about the custom CSS though, thanks!

tqkxzugoaupvwqr 6y ago

After “upgrading” to Big Sur the first thing I searched for was disabling font smoothing. The default looks ridiculously ugly. I was shocked that they removed the toggle from the system preferences. Apple is all about design and then they double down on something this ugly?