Questions tagged [font-smoothing]
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Font weight turns lighter on Mac/Safari
On my last website, the text is perfect naturally on chrome and firefox without touching font-smoothing or anything else.
But on Mac / Safari 7 the text appears well then turns immediately thinner (too much thinner / not nice to read).
After doing…
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Disable Anti-Aliasing Fonts in Xcode 4.4 in Mountain Lion
It's getting pretty frustrating to keep struggling with this one. I'm not sure if it's Xcode 4.4 or Mountain Lion (I installed both simultaneously), but once again my code is being anti-aliased (font smoothing) in Xcode.
I was previously able to fix…
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Intellij IDEA font smoothing in linux
I'm using IntelliJ IDEA on Arch Linux with KDE. OpenJDK version is 1.7.0_40.
Whole IDE fonts (includes code editor) are rendered without any antialiasing and font smoothing. I set in idea.properties file idea.use.default.antialiasing.in.editor to…
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Is it possible to disable font smoothing in CSS?
I want some small fonts to look with no smoothing. Is it possible to disable font smoothing using HTML/CSS?
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Is there a way to smooth font icons in Firefox?
I'm using icons. On Chrome and Opera they look fine. But if I try Firefox they look pretty blurry if the font-size of icons is lesser than 20px, while after 30px they look smooth. Is there a way to fix this?For example the Firefox problem of images…
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Font Smoothing Techniques? text-shadow rendering differently in Chrome 14.0.833.0 or higher
EDIT:
We're in Chrome 19 now, and this still isn't fixed. Just a clarification: this happens in Chrome on Windows, not Linux or Mac. I think it has to do with Cleartype. Google, please fix this.
I've been using CSS3 text-shadow to emulate IE9's…
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font smoothing CSS - but for windows?
The following code makes my text look so much prettier on Mac:
html, body {
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}
But it doesn't work on Windows. Is there anything that works the same way for Windows?
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JavaFX: Entirely turn off scene anti-aliasing (inclusive of control text anti-aliasing)
Since both System.setProperty("prism.lcdtext", "false") and System.setProperty("prism.lcdtext", "true") are unsatisfactory (the former appears downy whereas the latter appears colorful at the letter edges even though the text color is black; on my…
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Font smoothing in Visual Studio for Mac 2019
I upgraded Visual Studio for Mac 2017 to 2019 yesterday, and immediately noticed that the Subpixel rendering is switched off inside the text editor! It looks terrible.
I'm running OS X Mojave where I, after having upgraded it, explicitly turned…
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JavaFX: Turn off font smoothing
(There are several similar question, but no answer worked)
I started experimenting with JavaFX (JDK8) and first thing I noticed is a horrible font smoothing. I'm using Windows 8.1 and disabling font smoothing/ClearType OS-wide was one of the first…
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Android Studio 2.1 - I want font antialiasing / smoothing off
On Windows 7 64 bit in Android Studio 1.5 I have a nice Monospaced 14 font without antialiasing / smoothing which I like. However, in recently installed Android Studio 2.1 (all settings allegedly imported from AS 1.5) - antialiasing / smoothing is…
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Truly bitmap (no anti-aliasing/shadowing/etc) fonts in CSS
I'm trying to get firefox and chrome to render bitmap fonts properly, but no matter what I seem to do they always anti-alias text to some degree. I'm using terminus, converted from TTF to WOFF and included with @font-face in CSS. Here's what I want…
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Text Smoothness changing on hover
When I hover the boxes the white text is changing smoothing automatically and getting it fixed automatically as well, not sure why font smoothness is being changed, here is the link
I tried with the following code to fix it, but no effect at…
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Ragged website font on Windows
I've been building this site for a while, however the font I use for headers looks ragged on Windows using Chrome, although it looks perfect on Mac or using Edge: Link
I did try the various font smoothing properties to no avail and using text-shadow…
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How to get an aliased (retro-style) HTML text effect
I am trying to achieve a jagged text effect with HTML and CSS text. I am aware of the webkit-font-smoothing and font-smooth properties, but even with those set to "none" and "never", the text is still smoother than I would like.
Are there other css…
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