Please add option to turn off font smoothing

qvacua / vimr

VimR — Neovim GUI for macOS in Swift

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Please add option to turn off font smoothing #922

Closed mikl closed 2 years ago

mikl commented 2 years ago

As per #312, VimR always turns on font smoothing aka. anti-aliasing. This gives blurry fonts on retina displays.

Previously, one could override this by changing the font smoothing setting in macOS, but in recent releases, this setting is hidden. There is a console command to turn it off, but it would be neat if VimR had it own setting.

For example, VSCode offers these options:

qvacua commented 2 years ago

Try "No Font Smoothing" option in Preferences -> Appearance -> Font Smoothing in the newest snapshot https://github.com/qvacua/vimr/releases/tag/snapshot%2F20220323.180713.

mikl commented 2 years ago

Beautiful and crisp, thanks for adding this option :)

(Font is Iosevka Slab, if anyone’s wondering)