Hi,

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.

Cheers,

Doru

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:

Johan Brichau wrote:

Hi,

I just started using a Macbook pro with retina display.
I notice the fonts are quite blurry. Is there something one can do to improve that?

Johan

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What version of Pharo?
What version of OSX?
What fonts?

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.
cheers -ben

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