Requires anti-aliasing to be enabled?

[raamdev]

I'm running OS X 10.9. I've been using Monaco 10pt in JetBrains PhpStorm and I've always had Anti-Aliasing turned off (Preferences → Appearance → Use anti-aliased font (unchecked)). That gives me a nice crisp look with the default Monaco font:

I was excited to install this Monaco Bold, as that's the one thing I've been missing! However, after installing and selecting MonacoB, my code looks like this:

Terrible! :( I tried turning on anti-aliasing, and it looks better:

But it's not "crisp", the way the default Monaco font looks with anti-aliasing turned off.

Does MonacoB font require anti-aliasing to be enabled? If so, is there any way to support anti-aliasing turned off? (I don't know much about fonts, so I'm not sure if that even makes sense...)

[vjpr]

Don't worry - I don't know much about fonts either!

I will see if I can fix it though.

On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Raam Dev [email protected] wrote:

I'm running OS X 10.9. I've been using Monaco 10pt in JetBrains PhpStorm
and I've always had Anti-Aliasing turned off (Preferences → Appearance →
Use anti-aliased font (unchecked)). That gives me a nice crisp look with
the default Monaco font:

[image: screen shot 2014-01-30 at 7 17 12 pm]https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/53005/2046862/a0ea163c-8a0d-11e3-9dba-ca7e8785e547.png

I was excited to install this Monaco Bold, as that's the one thing I've
been missing! However, after installing and selecting MonacoB, my code
looks like this:

[image: screen shot 2014-01-30 at 7 16 26 pm]https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/53005/2046870/c89b19e2-8a0d-11e3-907f-5c634cfe1bfe.png

Terrible! :( I tried turning on anti-aliasing, and it looks better:

[image: screen shot 2014-01-30 at 7 16 45 pm]https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/53005/2046876/e5f2085c-8a0d-11e3-99e4-050901c2e8f8.png

But it's not "crisp", the way the default Monaco font looks with
anti-aliasing turned off.

Does MonacoB font require anti-aliasing to be enabled? If so, is there any
way to support anti-aliasing turned off? (I don't know much about fonts, so
I'm not sure if that even makes sense...)

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[MarlonRodriguez]

Have you tried using Menlo as a font. I dont know much about fonts but it looks really close to Monaco. I switched to it for iTerm and Terminals.

[raamdev]

@MarlonRodriguez Yes, Menlo is exactly what I'm using now. :-)