Text shadows... 100% black font

Bandit Bill · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:10 pm Post subject: Text shadows... 100% black font

I just picked up a 20" Cinema Display a couple days ago. I like it very much.
However because it is so accurate it highlights things that I never noticed before.
Fonts for example are not black. They contain shades of grey. To me this gives a sense of looking fuzzy/blurry.

I want to change my fonts to 100% black and I can't seem to figure it out. I turned off font smoothing best possible. When going into <preferences> (let's use Safari for the example application, I want to change my fonts in), I notice there are shadow set-up features. I played around with the settings but I don't notice a difference.

How do I set my fonts to 100% black?
While I'm at it what is a nice clear font and size setting. I think I wonked things up.

Susurrus · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:21 pm Post subject:

Are you just saying that your blacks aren't black? If that's the case, just play with the contrast and brightness until it looks right.
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Bandit Bill · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 4:35 pm Post subject:

No, that's not what I'm saying. The color is irrelevant. Blue does the same thing. It's a shading effect.

Blow a font up 1000+%, you'll see what I mean. Turn on your visually impaired features and zoom in, or blow up a font in photoshop. With the default settings a font is not made up of all pure black pixels. The outer edges of the fonts are shades of grey. This is to reduce a blocky look. I want to see what things look like 100% black. Even if things appear blocky. I may prefer blocky over blurry.

Most people would not notice what I'm talking about or care. I'm not even sure I know what I'm talking about Smile

Susurrus · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:57 pm Post subject:

You can download a program, it's been mentioned on the forums before, and it can disable font smoothing completely. In OS X you cannot totally get rid of the antialiasing using just the pref pane.
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Bandit Bill · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 8:18 pm Post subject:

That program is Tinkertool. Thanx. I already had it on my system. It did exactly what I wanted it to. It's nice to know that my Cinema Display is simply a very sharp detailed monitor.

The fonts are pretty ugly looking now, but they are typewriter crisp. I'm sure I will find a happy medium.

blazer · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 9:00 pm Post subject:

You might want to go into Systems Preferences > Appearances and try a few of the Font smoothing styles. Try Medium and Strong. I have mine set on Strong and it makes things look less blurry.
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