Hello,
Does anyone know how to get the text appereance found in the terminal app system wide?
Here is a screenshot showing the same text in terminal and textedit, same font, same size. At leas for me, the terminal text is much more clearer - easier to read.
I'm using mountain lion.
Best regards.
MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
This is because unlike the Terminal, in TextEdit and many other programs, text is anti-aliased. This will smooth out the view and prevent the blocky look that is in the Terminal. Unfortunately TextEdit does not have any options for this, so you are stuck with an anti-aliased view, or will have to find another text editor that will give you this feature.
Thanks!
too bad there is not an option for this, I will have to get used to the blurry text 😟
Regards.
One popular text editor that does prevent anti-aliasing is TextWrangler (http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/).
With this program, you can set its default font to Monaco 10pt (the same that's used in the Terminal), and it should appear without being smoothed. Again, this is not going to happen in all applications, but if you are simply viewing and creating text files then you can use TextWrangler to do this and get the view you want.
You can turn off font smoothing for small fonts in System Preferences > General.
You can turn off font smoothing for small fonts in System Preferences > General.
Be aware there are some apps that won't even run if you do that.
I will take a look on textwrangler. However, I was looking for this for the OS itself.
The font smoothing only aplies to text size 12 and below, but anyway it does not seem to have the same effect, not sure. Is there any other way to adjust this setting and have better control over it?
Best regards.
Terminal font settings
