project_2501 Posted January 30, 2019 Posted January 30, 2019 This is a screenshot of Affinity Photo on a non-retina Macbook Air 2017. You can see the font rendering is so bad it is unreadable in places. Look for the word "steps" under "Fip Horizontal" and "Flip Vertical" I know that MacOS Mojave changed font rendering. I have observed this issue with and without this commonly suggested remedy: defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool FALSE Please can this be added to the bug tracker. Quote
Staff Gabe Posted January 31, 2019 Staff Posted January 31, 2019 Hi @tariq, Does this only happen in our app? Thanks, Gabe. Quote
project_2501 Posted January 31, 2019 Author Posted January 31, 2019 hi @GabrielM - yes of the several apps Ive looked at only the Affinity ones do this. To be clear - the font rendering Mojave does on non-retina displays is terrible but the Affinity Apps seem to have a particularly bad rendering. Note there is a difference between the "Flip Vertical" rendering and the "Steps" 1" rendering so they may be using a different font or UI toolkit? Perhaps have Affinity detect the type of display and use a more readable font? After all - we've had 40 years of legible fonts on non-retina displays ... :) Quote
Staff Gabe Posted January 31, 2019 Staff Posted January 31, 2019 3 hours ago, tariq said: Perhaps have Affinity detect the type of display and use a more readable font? I'm afraid we do not have anything in place for this, as this "issue" has just been introduced by Mojave. Most likely not much we can do as the text rendering is performed at an OS level and not app level. I will move this to feature requests. Quote
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