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Enable font smoothing for monospace fonts System
There are several hints that discuss disabling or changing the font smoothing threshold with the defaults key AppleAntiAliasingThreshold. However, this does not affect certain monospace fonts such as 10 pt Monaco, which is used in TextEdit, Mail, Xcode, etc. To make these fonts smoothed, try:

defaults write .GlobalPreferences AppleSmoothFixedFontsSizeThreshold 4
Substitute whatever number you want for the smoothing threshold (4 in the above example). As with any defaults command, you can also set the value on a per-application basis by substituting the com.company.product preference name for .GlobalPreferences.
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Enable font smoothing for monospace fonts
Authored by: Han Solo on Nov 13, '03 04:32:10PM
This is awesome! So much better to have a choice about font smoothing than for Apple to impose their preferences upon us.

Please tell -- how did you track this down? I went looking for something similar some time ago, and came up empty. Nice job!

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Authored by: hysterion on Nov 14, '03 02:31:08PM
Can't speak for arekkusu, but Nicholas Riley's Mac OS X font rendering page is pretty comprehensive on the topic.

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Authored by: arekkusu on Feb 25, '04 06:23:06AM

Yep, that's where I saw it, way back around 10.1. Mostly submitted it as a hint here just because I always had trouble finding that page again.



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Authored by: encro on Nov 14, '03 08:48:42AM

Clever! Works in Hydra (err <b>SubEthaEdit</b> now sadly) also :-)



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