High Sierra Font Smoothing

It appears in High Sierra that font smoothing is inconsistently applied when disabled from System Preferences. Applications use a mix of smoothing and no-smoothing when the feature is disabled, my preference for Retina screens.

Text looks bad when one line is smoothed and another isn't.

Anyone else seeing this behavior?

Posted on Sep 28, 2017 11:00 AM

19 replies

Nov 2, 2017 12:30 PM in response to Free 4 Live

Can confirm that. Happens for truncated text and text with special characters.

Clay Jones Author

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27 points

Nov 8, 2017 12:13 PM in response to Clay Jones

sample

Feb 9, 2018 5:23 PM in response to Free 4 Live

macOS 10.13.4 will be released early this spring. Most likely sometime between mid to late march.

Feb 28, 2018 1:30 AM in response to Tobit

Does that mean, this bug is finally fixed in the current beta of 10.13.4 and will be in the next final update, too? 😍

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High Sierra Font Smoothing