Hi again,

This should be a known issue as it was raised before. The problem occurs with any font. It has to do with the VM as far as I understood. I am not sure what is needed to be done, though.

I know this was raised when the retina display came out but I did not follow any development since I was not using one.

Now, I thought it had been fixed because, surely, I must not be the only one using a retina macbook with Pharo?

Anyway, I can understand if this is a known issue but is it well understood what should be done?

What version of Pharo?

30856

What version of OSX?

10.9.4

What fonts?

Any font that I can select in Pharo actually.

thanks for the links below. I will try and report results.

Johan

I'm not sure of these details, but it will give you some things to think about and try (and someone can correct me otherwise).
* Pharo's default font is still a bitmap StikeFont. * StrikeFont bitmaps are sub-pixel anti-aliased.
* Sub-pixel anti-aliases
* Retina display sometimes have sub-pixel rendering turned off, or maybe otherwise problem.

Try...
* Choosing a TrueType font
* Changing some OSX display settings
* http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/8277/how-does-apples-retina-display-affect-sub-pixel-rendering
* http://superuser.com/questions/457153/getting-crisper-fonts-in-os-x-after-switching-from-windows
* http://www.macworld.com/article/1145157/smoothsnow.html
* http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/8277/how-does-apples-retina-display-affect-sub-pixel-rendering

Please report your results.