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Fixing Terrible Blurry Font Rendering Issue in macOS Mojave #OneDevMinute

Ahmad Awais ⚡️ on September 25, 2018

Just updated to macOS Mojave only to find out that there is a terrible font rendering issue for almost all the ElectronJS based apps like VSCode my...
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Brian Kephart

After reading this, I noticed that the fonts on my website were thicker in Safari than they were before the update on my retina-equipped MBP. Other browsers were unaffected. I turned OFF font smoothing, and things returned to normal. Weird.

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Ahmad Awais ⚡️

Glad it helped. 👌

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Jhegs

(Instead to come and claim for credits here, like others) I came here to say "thank you", I often use an external monitor and I was having this weird issue.

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Ahmad Awais ⚡️

You're most welcomed! 🙌

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Maedah Batool 👩‍💻

Thank you, Ahmad, for fixing it. Sorry, it ruined your day but it was so much fun to see you so frustrated and when your arms were up in the air with the Aha moment! 🤣

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Ahmad Awais ⚡️

Hahaha!

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HeejongCho

Thank you!

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Maetrik/Ben • Edited

This worked for me until today, now the fonts are to thin again, even if the value says 0.
I can see it very clearly in iTerm/Terminal.

Edit: NVM, this is a iTerm2 issue.

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Ahmad Awais ⚡️

I am not updating my primary laptop.