{"id":6513,"date":"2018-09-25T16:39:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T11:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/?p=6513"},"modified":"2018-10-21T00:33:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T19:33:18","slug":"fix-macos-mojave-blurry-font-rendering-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/fix-macos-mojave-blurry-font-rendering-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix macOS Mojave Blurry Font Rendering Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/fix-macos-mojave-font-rendering-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Fix macOS Mojave Font Rendering Issue \u2192<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/VSCode.pro\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VSCode<\/a> my code editor of choice.<\/p>\n<p>After researching a little bit, less to my surprise, I found out that Apple has disabled Subpixel antialiasing for text in macOS Mojave. It&#8217;s gone.<\/p>\n<p>Little more research led to a fix, all you have to do is open up your <code>Terminal<\/code> application (<kbd>COMMAND (\u2318)<\/kbd> + <kbd>SPACE<\/kbd> then search for <code>Terminal<\/code>) and run the following command.<\/p>\n<p><code>defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO<\/code><\/p>\n<p>[ecko_fullpage_image]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/AhmadAwais.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4888\" src=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/5-macos-mojave-font-rendering-issue-fix.jpg\" alt=\"5 Macos Mojave Font Rendering Issue Fix\" width=\"2214\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a>[\/ecko_fullpage_image]<\/p>\n<p>This will lead to the font smoothing to be enabled \u2014 especially for non-retina external monitors. You&#8217;ll thank me later. <strong>You need to sign out and sign back in or restart your Mac before you can see your changes after running this command<\/strong>. That&#8217;s pretty much all.<\/p>\n<p>\u26a0\ufe0f Some folks also recommended enabling the font smoothing option in the <code>General<\/code> font settings but that didn&#8217;t work for me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/AhmadAwais.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4889\" src=\"https:\/\/ahmadawais.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/macos-font-smoothing.png\" alt=\"macOS Mojave Font Smoothing\" width=\"1560\" height=\"1580\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Peace! \u270c\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post first appeared on Fix macOS Mojave Font Rendering Issue \u2192 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 code editor of choice. After researching a little bit, less to my surprise, I found out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[84],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WP-Business-Featured-Image.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6543,"href":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/revisions\/6543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/6479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6513"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedevcouple.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}