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atom-material / atom-material-ui

A dynamic UI theme for Atom that follows Google's Material Design Guidelines
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-webkit-font-smoothing override causing unreadable text #276

Closed mvllow closed 8 years ago

mvllow commented 8 years ago

If I get a chance I would love to confirm this myself after digging through the code but just from speculation and a slight amount of research I saw that by default -webkit-font-smoothing is set to subpixel antialiased but when switching to atom-material-ui theme the sidebar (tree) and tab font weight is thinner and harder to read. I am on a MacBook Pro and have not experienced this previously but did take a month+ long break from Atom so am not sure if this is new or not. The issue is, do other people have this same problem? I added * { -webkit-font-smoothing: auto; } to my styles.less and that fixed it for me but am curious to why this was overridden and if it does appear visually nicer on other systems. Thanks!

silvestreh commented 8 years ago

Panels, settings, and tabs are antialiased. You can override this in your user stylesheet with:

atom-panel, .settings-view, .tab-bar {
    -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit;
}

I work on a 13" (2011) non-retina MacBook Pro and to me it looks pretty good. I guess it's more of a subjective matter on my part, as I can read both font-smoothing modes with no problem.