Dell U2715H monitor blurry font

I would try setting the dell resolution manually to: 1920 by 1200 (or closest it will go). That should help improve the text.

A couple more things would be; double check font smoothing is enabled.

- Open System Preferences and click “General”. At the bottom of the preference panel, check the box next to “Use LCD font smoothing when available”. Smoothing size, 8 is the default setting and tends to look best on most monitors.

Also: Go into the monitor settings and try changing the color mode from Standard to sRGB.

Play with font smoothing via terminal:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2

or 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4. 4 is strongest 0 is no smoothing.

Also, In the Dell Monitor Display settings set gamma to MAC

you could try this. on "Displays" under "system preferences" option click on where it says "Scaled" to get a bunch more display options

also try this EDID link I've found. I have a Dell 2715HM which had problems and this fixed them. Your mileage may vary, though

http://embdev.net/topic/284710#3027030

just fyi, Dell is of no help for this. They have said "We don't test our monitors on Apple stuff, we don't support 'em, and that's it. If they work, they work.

JB

If a new cable does not help, you could try mini display to HDMI. Tho the main thing is: they have different native resolutions, the next closest supported scaling on the mac is: 1920x1200 (hence my original suggestion). They also differ in aspect ratio; the mac uses 16:10 and Dell 16:9, so the resolution will be close but never match 100%. Which will affect output to a certain degree.

Did you ever get this problem sorted? Have the same monitor and a MacBook Pro Retina 13 and the same problem!

Thanks.

I have the same problem too! I'm thinking of sending it back but I do not know what should I replace it with.