photoja Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 (edited) I recently decided to try Affinity Photo after Photoshop CS6 stopped working in macOS Catalina. However, the application's UI size on normal large monitors (2560x1440) is a literal pain to look at because the fonts are blurry and tiny. No other UI I have on my mac is like this. The screenshots below show the difference between Photoshop CS6 and Sketch app, which have UIs that work well, and Affinity Photo, which has a UI that's blurry and hurts my eyes to look at. Is there any way to adjust Affinity Photo's UI to either make the fonts bigger or at least smooth them out so they're not grainy/blurry? PS CS6 Preference window: Sketch Preference window: Affinity Photo Preference window: PS CS6 app UI: Sketch app UI: Affinity Photo app UI (notice how grainy/blurry "Snap to edges" and "All layers" are): Edited October 12, 2019 by photoja Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff stokerg Posted October 13, 2019 Staff Share Posted October 13, 2019 Hi photoja and Welcome to the Forums, I've seen one other report of this happening, can you just try going into Preferences for Affinity and goto User Interface and toggle the 'Font UI Size' to Large and then back to Default. Does that resolve the issue? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photoja Posted October 14, 2019 Author Share Posted October 14, 2019 No, that made no change. Leaving the size at large does help a little, but the "Snap to edges" and "All layers" text still have the jaggies. I do remember seeing this once when macOS Mojave came out a year ago and there was an app with the same issue (might have been Visual Studio Code). It was optimized for 4K screens but looked terrible on 2K screens. They fixed it after a few weeks. Had something to do with the font anti-aliasing setup. I'm guessing that's what's happening here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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