Re: Antialiasing problems with light text on a dark background (OS/X 10.10)?

[John Mastro <john.b.mastro@gmail.com>]

Stuart Hungerford <stuart.hungerford@gmail.com> 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.

-- 
john