Font rendering different in El Capitan

Yosemite and El Capitan use different system fonts (Helvetica Neue vs San Francisco), other than that font rendering must be the same.

You have noticed a different behavior when it comes to the Terminal application, It seems to me that it uses the System font

I've noticed that too! Usually I'm using Menlo font with size 9 and with dark background it's really annoying 😟 Switched back to OS X Mavericks.

By the way, off topic but the shell process name has some weird dash in front of it.

I did notice it too. San Francisco font instead of Helvetica Neue for UI is one thing, but all other fonts are rendered more or less different.

And I like the lighter look on non-retina display. It makes fonts look less blurry, more readable than they were on Yosemite. But it's just my personal opinion.

this is how i got good quality font rendering (for my eyes, but everybody is different..)

step 1) in terminal, type this:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2

step 2) install this if you don't have it: http://brew.sh it's not an obligation but makes things a lot easier (see why on step 3)

step 3) install this http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/osx.html

You’re right, the font rendering is different. It’s actually a fix since the fat rendering of Yosemite (and a couple of versions before that – since when I don’t recall, maybe even Lion) was a bug.

The way it is in El Capitan is now the way it’s supposed to be…