Q: blurry font on yosemite

After trial and error i've found (in my case) that fonts get blurred when using Photoshop.. When I don't use photoshop, I can go for ever without rebooting the mac.. and the fonts are crisp and clear. Have you guys noticed this?? this happened to you too?? may this be an Adobe issue???!!!!!!

Fonts have been blurry on every mac I've used that run Yosemite, none have had photoshop on them. Maybe they are even blurrier while using photoshop and what you think is "crisp and clear" is actually blurrier than they were on Mavericks.

It's not just the text that is blurry for me, but also lots of little icons.  I've waited through updates and still have the problem.  This is word application on my Retina Screen MBP running Yosemite.  practically new MBP, too.  So pixelated.  This the most extreme example but so much is blurry, still.  I have re-booted, made a test session, etc.

Thanks! That sorted the problem right away.

I am just making the switch from Windows to a Macbook Pro, and with less than a week under my belt I am seriously considering taking this back and buying a Lenovo.  The headaches from using this thing are incredible.  I have used PCs my entire life, but have never gotten to the end of the day ready to just die in pain.  For a while I thought it was the font being too small, so I made it larger, but the headaches still come back.  I am going to head down to the Apple store today and try and get help.

Please keep us posted here as to what they say and do at the Apple Store!

The problem is that Apple's "No questions asked." return policy is a two-edged sword. If you accept it, then you get your money back, but no record is made of your Mac's problems. But if you instead opt for the Genius Bar to try to resolve the problems, then your deadline for returning the Mac runs out.

Let us know how you make out and what you decide.

Nate

Well, I just got back from the Chicago Apple Store on Michigan street, and nobody had any idea of the problem.  I took them to this forum thread, and they said to just try the things that have already been posted, such as turning off LCD Font Smoothing.  At this point, I am going to leave font smoothing off for a while and see if things improve. 

To be honest, I am somewhat disappointed that I spend this much on a machine, on an attempt to switch from a Windows PC over, and Apple can't comment on the issues.  There are numerous threads of these issues, and I can't seem to find any official response.  To complicate things, I couldn't talk to anyone at the genius bar until tomorrow because of their appointment system.  I wish they had a priority genius bar for new owners or something for say the first two weeks of ownership.

bmstevens wrote:

 

Well, I just got back from the Chicago Apple Store on Michigan street, and nobody had any idea of the problem.  I took them to this forum thread, and they said to just try the things that have already been posted, such as turning off LCD Font Smoothing.  At this point, I am going to leave font smoothing off for a while and see if things improve.

 

 

This bug has been reported via Feedback by me and at least 1000 others and that @ the day of Yosemite's launch. This is a very well known bug ALSO by Apple Engineers. Weird that the Store and all the geniuses weren't aware of this issue....

Yosemite is a great OS with a LOT of quirks. But also a lot of new and great features (IMO at Least). El Capitan in located within the Yosemite. So it is what Mountain Lion was to Lion. A big and great bug fix for Lion. At least I hope that choosing the name El Capitan is synonymous for saying "Hey Guys, we've heard you... 10.10 was premature and 10.11 is going to fix all that...."

If it aint, I am moving from 20 years of Mac to sad sad but more reliable world of Windoze !

The same issue macbook air early 2015

Apple please fix it, my eyes are bleeding 

I have this issue in the macbook air early 2015. I am using a mini displayport to HDMI adapter and the fonts are blurry as ****. I was using a Windows PC and all was great but whit this new Mac is horrible. Any fix? Any offiicial info from Apple?

To exclude hardware or cable connection problems:

Open the terminal and go to preferences -> profiles and select the Pro theme.

The text in the terminal is fantastic sharp, all other have the OS X Font smoothing error!

Thanx for the tip! I made the test and yeah, everything is ok on console buy blurry everywere else.

Apple need to fix this ASAP

Same issue here now I have a MacMini 2012 connected to my 40" Samsung LED TV. Looks to me like anti-aliasing of the fonts isn't been used. This was something Acorn Computers mastered in RISC OS back in 3.11 in 1990! So no excuses for Apple not to sort this issue out!

OS X El Capitan will be released around September and it has the San Francisco font. I'm not sure if Apple will be fixing the font aliasing problem because they haven't acknowledged it whatsoever. There are bug reports on Open Radar. I've sent more than 20 bug/feedback reports to Apple since installing Yosemite. It's fallen on deaf ears.

Btw, I spoke with a lot of people (whenever I get a chance) that have Macs (retina and non-retina) and all them have noticed that the Helvetica Neue in Yosemite is blurry and hard to read. They just don't go on support forums to air it.

Every single reputable tech website has offered some sort of fix for the blurry font in Yosemite, but of course, none of these work because it's a Yosemite bug. Apple knows about it. The $750 billion market cap corporation and they're marketing gurus don't live in a cave. Money isn't scarce for software engineers to fix it. It's an embarrassment.

Below is Ars Technica's recent article about the blurry font problem in Yosemite and the new San Francisco font tailored for OS X in El Capitan. I hope the final version of the San Francisco system font is bolder (seems lighter to me as per the screenshots I've seen so far), and let's not forget the font smoothing bug fixed since the system font is being worked on anyway by Apple software engineers.

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/06/preview-os-x-el-capitans-first-beta-is-a-pr omising-heap-of-refinements/2/