Q: blurry font on yosemite

Perhaps it was intentional to show a massive difference vs a blurred OS X vs the new iMAC retina.   I've had headaches the last few days since upgrading after I leave the office of being on my mac for 9 hours.

Guys

I got a very nice call from an Apple Engineering group gentleman today. They do read these posts and apparently really care about these issues.

I spent about an hour with him running diags and taking screen captures and photos and sent him everything.

There are a few problems here for me. I have a new Retina iMac and Yosemite all at once and between the two major changes in my life its hard to distinguish where the problems are coming from but there are problems for sure.

I can't comfortably sit down at my 27 iMac and enjoy a session of work any longer and my 2 Samsung external monitors are useless now because of this blurry issue.

I would love to see how mavericks would look on this retina machine along with how mavericks would look on the Samsungs attached to the Retina machine . Unfortunately i can't do that as the Retina machine can only run Yosemite.

Apple is working on it and I wonder what the fixes could be.. Whats weird is I am typing this on my new Macbook Pro 13" retina running yosemite and it looks wonderful. No issues at all.

I am blown away at how many people are dissapointed with the new OS graphics and couple this with  new Machine which alot of people will return if they don't get it right. Its in their best interest to make this fix and fast

Keep you guys posted

Craig

hi. Since i update my iPad mini to ios 8 the fonts are blurry to. Anybody know one way to back to ios 7.2.1?

i Don't use ir because it's very bad fonts. Make me dizzy.

For the iPad try Settings > Display & Brightness > Bold Text

That might help a bit.

Is anyone else seeing the issue with a retina screen?  I have a 13" MBP w/retina, and I am seeing the issue.

What's particularly strange is that, when using Chrome with multiple tabs open, content in some of the tabs is blurry while others are fine.  I've got another monitor connected to my MBP, and when I move the entire Chrome window from the retina screen to the attached monitor (not retina -- an old Dell screen), the content that was blurry becomes perfect.  When I move the window back to the retina screen on the MBP itself, all text looks great.  Things are working for me at the moment, but maybe this will help someone (or Apple).

In my humble opinion we don't have to settle with this unsatisfactory fixes, we need to spam apple with feedback so they can fix this as soon as possible. This is a shame! i can't belive they launch the OS like this.

Yosemite is the new Windows Vista

That happened to me after updating to Yosemite. My eyes started to get sore from straining because of the thin, dim, tiny Helvetica font. I tried all the settings to increase legibility, but it didn't help. The excessive white everywhere compounds the issue too. I got so frustrated that after a week and I made a Mavericks boot installer and downgraded back to Mavericks. I noticed a huge difference and I'm happy with Mavericks. I hope Apple fixes this soon because I liked Yosemite's new features.

If it was intentional to make the retina iMac look better or not with the crappy OS release it worked, because I ordered a 5k iMac last night.  Hopefully I don't run into these issues.  I literally have had eye pain all week since upgrading ALL 3 of my macs.

Same issue on my iMac:

On boot screen and fonts are perfect but sometimes ( I suspect after some gesture using Apple Magic Mouse but I'm not sure about that) the blur appear.

This happen only on one screen ( I have also a second monitor).

At moment I was not able to replicate the issue manually but this disappear after reboot.

I disabled the Dashboard in the System Preferences, and the font was not blurry for a week uptime.

Hmm... i suspect blurry appear during Dashboard sliding as a "cool" effect made by Mac OS but... if you stop it during sliding to come back... it freeze the font blur...

Theatermax, do you think they really care about it?

Long time passed since the release of yosemite and i think this is one of the major issues and they don't even

released a quick fix for this.

It's impossible to work on a imac with this issue.

All products from apple are about quality and display image but whats the point if you can not read text from display.

Do you guys from apple really test your systems? Not even one test in one imac 27 non retina?

This is something that happens inside of Applications too. I.e FCPx is full of lists which at the beginning and the end are sharp. But in the center all blurred.

This is a bug which has been reported.

MortenJamesCarlsen wrote:

 

I.e FCPx is full of lists which at the beginning and the end are sharp.

This is all the places where the translucent background + font. (lists, sidebars, etc)