{"id":66,"date":"2002-11-09T20:22:54","date_gmt":"2002-11-10T01:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=66"},"modified":"2016-08-19T11:32:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T15:32:30","slug":"i_believe_anti_aliasing_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2002\/11\/09\/i_believe_anti_aliasing_i\/","title":{"rendered":"I Believe Anti-Aliasing Is Not Addictive"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.x180.net\/Blog\/2002\/Nov\/09#Computers\/MacOSX\/SubversiveAntiAlias\">James Duncan Davidson<\/a> really likes Mac OS X&#8217;s anti-aliasing. On the contrary, I find it to be the single most annoying part of OS X. (Yes, it&#8217;s worse than the open\/save panels and the mostly stateless Finder.) I find the text hard to read and ugly. There&#8217;s no way to turn it off system-wide. Some programs, like OmniWeb, let you disable anti-aliasing for their content views, but the resulting Quartz text is so poorly drawn that it often looks <em>worse<\/em> than with anti-aliasing. As a result, I use applications like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/5.04\/paradigm.shtml\">iCab<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/6.10\/bbedit.shtml\">BBEdit<\/a> that draw their content using QuickDraw and thus can display actual screen fonts. (Sadly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/8.04\/mailsmith.shtml\">Mailsmith<\/a>, uses anti-aliased text for its lists.) Here are some screenshots of Mac OS X&#8217;s anti-aliasing, taken from my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\">ATPM<\/a> coverage. (Click for discussion.)\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/7.10\/paradigm.shtml\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/7.10\/images\/pcp-fonts.gif\" height=\"149\" alt=\"pcp-fonts\" border=\"0\" width=\"388\" \/><\/a>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/8.09\/paradigm.shtml\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/8.09\/images\/pcp-font-smoothing.gif\" height=\"119\" alt=\"pcp-font-smoothing\" border=\"0\" width=\"291\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Duncan Davidson really likes Mac OS X&#8217;s anti-aliasing. On the contrary, I find it to be the single most annoying part of OS X. (Yes, it&#8217;s worse than the open\/save panels and the mostly stateless Finder.) I find the text hard to read and ugly. There&#8217;s no way to turn it off system-wide. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[104,30,655],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-fontsmoothing","tag-mac","tag-mac-os-x-10-2-jaguar"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15611,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/15611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}