Tweak fonts for easier legibility under ML D630?

[muranb]

Has anyone tweaked their fonts under ML on the D630 1280 x 800 to make an improvement to legibility? They appear a little blurred throughout the system and it's quite hard work to use for long periods on the built in screen. Assume optimised for retina screens?

 

It's hard to explain but I find the font kind of soft and blurry and a bit too heavy rather than crisp and sharp as it is when I boot into Windows 8. It's almost like when the cleartype settings under Windows 8 are set incorrectly.

 

I know there is Tinker tool - been playing with that but can't seem to settle on a good configuration. Any recommendations for this or other methods?

 

Not sure if this is a ML thing or related to the hackintosh scene, more likely the former I assume.

 

Thanks

[Axel-Erfurt]

if you switch from windows to osx it is normal that you see it that way.

there is the Font made ​​smooth.

 

after 4 weeks working with OSX you will not notice it.

[Hervé]

You can turn on/off font smoothing through the "General" preference panel if you want to experiment; though I can't say it makes much of a difference. This being said, I've never found the font to be a problem in terms of legibility on any screen. If anything, I'd like it a tad smaller in fact!

[muranb]

Thanks, have tried with font smoothing off but it doesn't look great. Assume Lucida Grande is optimised for Mac screens under OSX. if I could just make text appear as it does under Windows it would be ideal.

 

Size isn't the issue, it's the way the font is presented, just seems a little soft. Perhaps it is just a case of getting used to it as suggested.

[Axel-Erfurt]

You can test this in a Terminal

 

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2