OS X Yosemite: If screen text looks blurry or jagged

If screen text looks blurry or jagged

If the fonts on your screen look fuzzy, blurry, or jagged, you can turn on font smoothing in General preferences. In apps that support it, font smoothing reduces jagged edges to make fonts appear smoother.

  1. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click General.

  2. In the bottom section of General preferences, select “Use LCD font smoothing when available.”

    Some people find that text appears blurry when font smoothing is turned on. If you’re not sure which setting you prefer, try reading text on your screen with and without LCD font smoothing, then choose a setting.

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Last Modified: Sep 23, 2015
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