Ability to turn off font antialiasing

[krstp]

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As stated in the ttile. I love the antialiasing, but when using ZED on older laptop with lower resolution, the next when viewed in downsized font size does not seem as clear as I wished. For this particular reason I keep thinking ability to turn off antialiasing on the fonts would help.

Also team please know, right now antialiasing is amazing, so any newer machines, the rendering is amazing :) Thanks!

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[morhekil]

It's not just older systems – I use Pragmata Pro Mono font, which is optimised for hi-dpi screens. It actually looks better without anti-aliasing, so I have it turned off in my VSCode. It would be great to be able to turn off anti-aliasing in Zed as well, as the text just looks blurry to me now when I just over from VScode.

[xzbdmw]

Do you mean sub-pixel antialiasing? For that you can just tune off macos's font smooth.

[bryanbuchanan]

It was annoying me that text seemed too thin in Zed, too. Here's a quick illustration. It's a minor thing, but I do much prefer the heavier anti-aliasing.

[xzbdmw]

It dosen’t look like a aliasing issue, the difference is much bigger if you turn off sub-piexel aliasing in vscode

[bryanbuchanan]

I'm not sure the exact terminology, but the font rendering is just slightly thinner than in other apps, and especially noticeable on a 72dpi monitor.

[ViggoV]

I'm not sure the exact terminology, but the font rendering is just slightly thinner than in other apps, and especially noticeable on a 72dpi monitor.

This led me to play with the buffer_font_weight and ui_font_weight settings. Helps a lot

[amiralies]

alacritty is also doing a great job at font rendering if it helps.

[arathunku]

In my case, same font in Alacritty vs Zed. I tried to adjust font_weight settings without much success.

[xzbdmw]

@arathunku they are different font, probably you need a diffetent name for jetbrains mono in zed.

[arathunku]

Ahh, thanks @xzbdmw, I'm probably running into #14324 then 😭

EDIT: nope! fc-cache -f -v was required, Zed is now using my font. This is strange given that other apps were able to use it for months but anyway, it works. Looks nice too!