Terrible Eye Strain in Monterey and Ventura
Hi,
I have poor eyesight, a light sensitivity, strobe sensitivity, and visual motion sensitivity. I have been using MacOS Mojave, as well as a flicker-free monitor with the brightness at 0%, contrast 0%, red 15%, green 15%, and blue 5%.
In Mojave, the default text rendering was spindly and painfully hard to read, but I was able to use Tinkertool to set old-style font smoothing and set it to strong and text wasn't so bad.
I tried installing Ventura, but the text was unreadable, and I'd get awful migraines from trying to find anything, and worse ones from the standard scrolling behavior in the new System Settings.
I wiped that partition and then installed Monterey, but the text was still exceedingly hard to read, and Tinkertool could only set default font smoothing or none.
Can anyone suggest options to enable either strong font smoothing or thicker fonts in Monterey and other recent versions of MacOS?
I can't use Dark Mode because of my eyesight, or increase contrast, because it wipes out contrast in some apps.
In theory an e-ink or rlcd monitor could also help, but full-sized ones cost $1500 and up...
Mac mini, macOS 12.6