{"id":3396,"date":"2013-07-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theill.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/07\/tweak-appcode-font-aliasing-on-your-mac\/"},"modified":"2013-07-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T22:00:00","slug":"tweak-appcode-font-aliasing-on-your-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theill.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/07\/tweak-appcode-font-aliasing-on-your-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweak AppCode font aliasing on your mac"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you can’t use your beloved Monaco font in AppCode because it has gained weight and simply looks too bold, you might want to trim your anti-aliasing settings.<\/p>\n

Try running this in your terminal<\/p>\n

$ defaults write com.jetbrains.AppCode.plist AppleFontSmoothing -int 1\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Left one is updated and right one is original<\/p>\n\n\n
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You might tweak it even more by using different values for -int 1<\/code> e.g. 0, 2 or 3. I’m not changing the system wide font smoothing setting, but only the one for AppCode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If you can’t use your beloved Monaco font in AppCode because it has gained weight and simply looks too bold, you might want to trim your anti-aliasing settings. 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