Blurry / fuzzy screen text / fonts

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Blurry / fuzzy screen text / fonts

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I have had my MacBook Pro for 3 days. I find the screen fonts are not very clear or sharp. Text appears quite fuzzy and blurry all the time, e.g. when viewing web pages, reading the help files, or even now - the text on this message I'm writing right now looks fuzzy. Also, the smaller the text, the fuzzier it gets making it very hard to read. I have tried turning off 'font smoothing' in System Preferences/Appearance, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

Does anyone know of any solutions to this problem? I'd be really grateful for your help.

Thanks

MacBook Pro 13-inch 2.66Ghz, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Aug 15, 2010 5:03 AM

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Answer 1

Aug 19, 2010 6:47 PM in response to quesa

If this is your fist Apple computer and your coming from a PC. Then you may notice a difference. Apple uses a slightly different way of smoothing fonts on LCD screens. Some prefer Microsoft's way and some like Apple's. I do know especially if your using Firefox and not Safari the fonts appear even worse. I have found that too high of brightness level can sometimes make this even worse. So try lowering the brightness level some.

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Aug 19, 2010 11:56 PM in response to John Scott1

Thanks, dude.

I have a Genius Bar appointment on Monday. I'll ask them to look at my screen, and we'll compare with others notebook in store. I've already compared the fonts in my screen with the screen fonts in a friend's MacBook. Fonts are much shaper on his screen, so I think there might be a problem with my laptop.

Thanks for your input.

Regards

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S.U.

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Aug 20, 2010 1:18 PM in response to quesa

Something else to try is to go to System Preferences>Universal Access and be sure the Zoom is turned off and the Enhance contrast bar is set all the way to the left. Sometimes UA features get turned on by accident.

Good luck!

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S.U.

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Aug 21, 2010 8:15 AM in response to quesa

One other place to check--go to System Preferences>Displays and see the display is set to the proper resolution. You can find the proper resolution in the System Profiler under Graphics/Displays. If yours is set to a different resolution, that could be a contributing factor.

Good luck!

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Answer 5

Aug 26, 2010 8:57 PM in response to S.U.

How'd it go at the genius bar? I am in the same boat, I bought a MBP 15" last week, love the machine but cant adjust to the blurry text. Have tried numerous recommended fixes and tools, from what Ive read though its just the way Apple does it - and you either are ok with it or you aren't.

I am probably going to return mine and go back to PC, I read and write all day an nod sharp fonts.

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Aug 27, 2010 4:51 AM in response to quesa

Hello everyone

Thanks very much for all your replies, in particular to S.U. for trying to help.

I had my appointment with the Genius Bar. Apparently there is nothing wrong with my laptop - it's just the way it's supposed to be. We compared it to another laptop in store and the screen fonts just looked the same. Now that I know all is ok, I feel I'm starting to getting used to the Mac screen fonts.

Regards

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quesa Author

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Aug 21, 2010 6:55 AM in response to S.U.

Hi there. Just checked that - all is as you recommend. Thanks.

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Answer 8

Aug 26, 2010 8:58 PM in response to motoq2000

and need sharp fonts... Dang iPhone keypad!

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