From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stuart Hungerford Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Antialiasing problems with light text on a dark background (OS/X 10.10)? Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:26:47 +1000 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1439591226 18879 80.91.229.3 (14 Aug 2015 22:27:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 22:27:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: John Mastro Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 15 00:27:06 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQNRF-0008TC-3o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Aug 2015 00:27:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48500 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQNRE-00027l-IW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:27:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53222) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQNR3-00027f-Sk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:26:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQNR2-00082p-6r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:26:49 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-vk0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400c:c05::230]:35851) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZQNR2-00082k-2b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:26:48 -0400 Original-Received: by vkbf67 with SMTP id f67so34941332vkb.3 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:26:47 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=edQdLqg8YXG3tZ9W7H1Q01K6wDIIeKkKXjYD+xAbAoc=; b=rEjTfcdpmkJuGBjqogDfT4ky5b54+ZooKF7mAxrW8DrVbFqy5nEMLRbRBk5WU1jusq 4edmSx7XxKnH9f+OZpZSlMso0tzUNvv0+rlFoLpvp9qbMDoanf/n5Ia0sFdJ0JadTnJR BY9RWzoqcrdlsTC5maMEIhYQ66zOUgcozPYUdwfUaaqhXElqkBGqo0ukrg4I+OcEEmg+ kgHcTMLo2FyU12msOrCwwC0cV+ctHVfyXLS/CrOnpxcdHSio+Y7tNK5POIgFFaY205Xu DZDMwfu/JgqhC19+eFrMArE6qd7RJYq5oKFXqOGv14uXfomuReFECnHqssZxaNv7/Vgo YenA== X-Received: by 10.52.13.234 with SMTP id k10mr58394106vdc.77.1439591207627; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:26:47 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.31.32.139 with HTTP; Fri, 14 Aug 2015 15:26:47 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400c:c05::230 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:106600 Archived-At: On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 7:32 AM, John Mastro wrote: > Stuart Hungerford wrote: >> I've been trying out Emacs installed through Homebrew on OS/X 10.10 >> (both the standard Gnu version and the Emacs-mac variant). >> >> Using light text on a near black background the text is rendered very >> bold and thick. The same font (Inconsolata opentype) in the same >> colors and the same text looks much thinner with Terminal.app and >> Sublime Text. I've also discovered this bug report which I think is >> still open: >> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2014-10/msg01082.html >> >> Has anyone else experienced this issue? Are there any work-arounds I'm missing? > > My read of that bug report is that the reporter believed that setting > the normal font got them the bold one and vice versa. > > If that's correct, and is the same thing affecting you, you could work > around it somewhat by setting the bold font, thereby getting the normal > one. > > Not a perfect workaround, but maybe an improvement over the status quo. Thanks for replying--much appreciated. My experience has been that both normal weight and bold weight fonts are way too thick and bold (compared with other OS/X applications), so I took that bug report to indicate something is wrong with emacs font antialiasing on OS/X even though my experience is slightly different. I've found that Adobe Source Code Pro has an "extra light" weight which I'm using for now, but would prefer to stick Inconsolata if I can. Thanks, Stu