Comments on: Aliased Text in Eclipse on OS X

By: Tony Bateman

Tony Bateman — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:48:55 +0000

This is a GREAT solution. I recently got a new MacBook Pro and was experiencing serious buyers remorse. I’ve has tried half-a-dozen different approaches, including calling Apple.

I had already installed Windows XP on the Mac, and was feeling ripped-offed, believing that I code not use the Mac running Mac OS for coding.

This fixes a major issue. I think you, and so should Steve Jobs.

By: necessary and sufficient » Blog Archive » disabling anti-aliased fonts in netbeans on osx

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 08:56:30 +0000

[...] this more or less works (thanks to tim for pointing this out here), but with netbeans, no [...]

By: jimb

jimb — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:11:27 +0000

Great tips.
Still have an issue though in FB with the scaled font trick…at 4pt most of my code is scaled properly, but any colored keywords are scaled way too small.

Also, my fave coding font has always been Andale Mono….

By: YAY!MEDIA - Flash Platform Development Blog

YAY!MEDIA - Flash Platform Development Blog — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:08:45 +0000

Changing Flex Builder’s default code-view font on OSX…

Whenever I use Flex Builder I don’t like the standard Courier or monospace font used in Windows or OSX. Instead I prefer to use the excellent Proggy Programming Fonts – they are excellent, concise fonts designed to be readable while remaini…

By: Eric the Grateful

Eric the Grateful — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:04:56 +0000

The solution above, that is typing this into a terminal window, worked great for me:

defaults write org.eclipse.eclipse AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 20

Many grateful thanks, to Tim.

By: Okonomiyaki3000

Okonomiyaki3000 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:59:56 +0000

I don’t know why people are so down on smooth text for monospaced fonts. Looks great on Anonymous even down to 7pt.

By: Vanderhoven Nick

Vanderhoven Nick — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:49:00 +0000

If you have the problem that heywood has you can just change the settings of the syntax highlighing, if you use profont, i prefer to set

defaults write org.eclipse.eclipse AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 10

and have only the text in the editor not aliased at 10pt while the text in eg the package view is still aa at 11 pt

By: Jannis Hermanns' place

Jannis Hermanns' place — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:47:05 +0000

OSX: Disable font anti-aliasing in Eclipse…

For those who use Eclipse in Leopard or Tiger, here’s a little tip on how to turn off font antialiasing. There is a system wide setting in the control panel, but it affects all applications. Usually I like smooth fonts – but not for programming. To se…

By: Netbeans Font Smoothing in OSX

Netbeans Font Smoothing in OSX — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:04:05 +0000

[...] tried setting the global font smoothing threshold in OSX preferences to no avail. People have had exactly the same issue in Eclipse but none of the suggestions are working (read the [...]

By: el_migu_el

el_migu_el — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:04:58 +0000

Hi, nice tip, thank you. Unfortunately I can not generate a nice HUGE variant of my loved Terminus font. Anybody a little help for me? :)

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:20:04 +0000

Have you noticed the difference (on Leopard) between Monaco rendered in XCode and Eclipse. The Xcode rendering of Monoco is just beautiful. I cannot stand the version Eclipse produces (same font, same size). Does anyone know how produce the Xcode result in Eclipse? Thx

By: michal

michal — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:04:33 +0000

Please help, otherwise I’m gonna get crazy.

None of these solutions worked for me.
I tried: scaling the font I use ( Lucida Sans Typewriter ), adding both entries to defaults.
Nothing.
Terminal window displays the same font perfectly, exacly the way I expect.
Any ideas?

By: eitan

eitan — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 07:57:03 +0000

thanks for the post, I’ve tried your huge font looks good but as heywood said I think you forgot to scale bold and italics. Can you pls post the font you’re using pleaseee.
Thanks.

By: bryan kennedy

bryan kennedy — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 23:44:43 +0000

Thanks SO much for this post. Tim's comment above about the per application Anti Aliasing worked perfectly for me. I wrote a little article about my search for my favorite programing font. I eventually landed on ProFont like bob. It's real nice to not have to switch away from it as I start transitioning from BBEdit to Eclipse. Before I got this anti-aliasing figured out it didn't look right at all in Eclipse.

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:25:22 +0000

Heywood, just set the defaults for eclipse as follows:

defaults write org.eclipse.eclipse AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 20

I also had the same problem with the bold font type provided in the example above. This method works a treat.