{"id":1241,"date":"2009-10-10T15:54:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-10T14:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2009-10-10T15:55:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-10T14:55:37","slug":"how-to-turn-on-subpixel-rendering-on-external-lcd-on-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/how-to-turn-on-subpixel-rendering-on-external-lcd-on-os-x\/","title":{"rendered":"How to turn on subpixel rendering on external LCD on OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/8558831@N05\/3286563669\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"photo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3211\/3286563669_37da6ed47c.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"(1024) : random.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A quick tip for all the fellow OS X users. It looks like OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard have problems with automatically turning on sub-pixel rendering for fonts when viewing text on external display. This means that your new huge display will show things differently from your built-in one.<\/p>\n<p>After getting bit by this, I&#8217;ve discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/discussions.apple.com\/message.jspa?messageID=10310875\">a simple fix in Apple support forums<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Open Terminal and enter the following command:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and then log out and back in.<\/p>\n<p>Check the thread for more commands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quick tip for all the fellow OS X users. It looks like OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard have problems with automatically turning on sub-pixel rendering for fonts when viewing text on external display. This means that your new huge display will show things differently from your built-in one. After getting bit by this, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[128,57,813,814],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-fonts","tag-hack","tag-osx","tag-subpixel"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jurecuhalev.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}