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Fix the ugly small font in iTunes4 Apps
Installing Apple's newest version of iTunes (4.0) made the "Small" fonts turn non-anti-aliased (ie., not "smooth"). To fix this, open System Preferences and go to the General pane. If you set the "Turn off text smoothing for font sizes __ and smaller" to "8", your iTunes window will look pretty again.

[robg adds: I noticed this immediately; the "Search" text below the search box was nearly illegible. I thought I might have a corrupted font, but a bit of stumbling through the prefs panels found this same solution. It seems Apple notched the iTunes font sizes down by one...]
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Fix the ugly small font in iTunes4
Authored by: ebow on Apr 29, '03 10:54:07AM

If you do what the hint says, and then change General Preferences text smoothing back to "9," the iTunes font will remain smoothed / improved. At least, it's worked for me, even after a reboot I believe.



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Fix the ugly small font in iTunes4
Authored by: anakin513 on Apr 29, '03 11:01:28AM

That worked for me too.



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Fix the ugly small font in iTunes4
Authored by: puffyn on Apr 29, '03 02:00:05PM

This has worked on all computers I've tried it on. Does anyone
have an idea of why it works?



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Fix the ugly small font in iTunes4
Authored by: anakin513 on Apr 29, '03 10:54:50AM

OneTrueDabe, you are a god. This works great! I was so ticked off that the text looked so bad. Thanks!



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Fix the ugly small font in iTunes4
Authored by: Power Factor on Apr 29, '03 11:17:36AM

Seems to be more of a problem for LCD monitors.
The CRTs here were at least legible in the "Search" text, but it
wasn't so for my LCD.



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Fix the ugly small font in iTunes4
Authored by: Hes Nikke on Apr 29, '03 12:04:11PM

what is weird, is that i have a few tracks that look fine, and there doesn't appear to be any rime or reason for it!

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Fix the ugly small font in iTunes4
Authored by: paploo on Apr 29, '03 07:44:03PM

On my computers, I found that it did not anti-alias any field that had just 7-bit ASCII characters in it. However, fields that had international characters (like French accents or Japanese) were written in a fully smoothed font. This caused all my foreign music to look like it was written in bold. I submitted it as a bug report to Apple, but fortunately, it looks as though a fix has already been found.

-Jeff



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Fix the ugly small font in iTunes4
Authored by: Cowboy_X on Apr 29, '03 07:36:29PM

The fonts in iTunes have been a continual source of frustration for me. As far as I'm concerned, they're nowhere near small enough! Why can't I just PICK...?



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