How does TXAA work?

From what I can gather, TXAA is an nvidia-developed, nvidia-specific anti-aliasing technique. Also it’s temporal anti-aliasing which, as I understand, means it reduces aliasing in moving scenes (correct me if I’m wrong). I also read that it has a blur effect that is more noticeable than most other common techniques (someone was saying on a … Read more

16″ MacBook Pro blue pixel aliasing on external display

I have a new MBP 2019 16″ with the AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8 GB vid card. When I plugged my LG UltraFine 5K display in via USB-C I noticed strange light blue aliasing around font and images. Example (bad): Here is the same text (in same window) but on the MBP built-in retina display: … Read more

Disable font smoothing in Wine

I have the opposite problem of this: Font smoothing in Wine Fonts that are rendered the Windows way look blurry and have their colours offset, like on Windows, so I want to disable font smoothing completely. What I’ve tried: Regedit keys ClientSideAntiAliasWithRender and ClientSideAntiAliasWithCore in HKCU/Software/Wine/X11 Driver fontsmooth=disable in winetricks Font substitution from this answer, … Read more

How can I turn off anti-aliasing for the text editor in Flash Builder on the Mac?

Is it possible to turn off anti-aliasing for the text editor in Flash Builder on the Mac? For Flex Builder I was able to do this via the terminal using the following defaults write com.adobe.flexbuilder AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 20 defaults write com.adobe.flexbuilder AppleSmoothFixedFontsSizeThreshold 20 Answer This post has the answer: defaults write org.eclipse.eclipse AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 10 AttributionSource : … Read more

Override font smoothing (antialiasing) method in Google Sheets grid (Firefox)

How to override font smoothing used in Google Sheets grid to make fonts sharp (as everywhere else on a page)? As you can see from the screenshot below, most of the elements use sharp font (standard Windows smoothing, not Clear Type). Even text in a cell edit textbox is OK (see ‘World’ word). But column … Read more

How can I turn off anti-aliasing for the text editor in Flash Builder on the Mac?

Is it possible to turn off anti-aliasing for the text editor in Flash Builder on the Mac? For Flex Builder I was able to do this via the terminal using the following defaults write com.adobe.flexbuilder AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 20 defaults write com.adobe.flexbuilder AppleSmoothFixedFontsSizeThreshold 20 Answer This post has the answer: defaults write org.eclipse.eclipse AppleAntiAliasingThreshold 10 AttributionSource : … Read more

Turn Off Anti-aliasing in Outlook 2003

I am running Outlook 2003 in Windows 7×64 with Internet Explorer 9. When I read a mail in the Reading Pane or by opening it, the text is anti-aliased. When I reply to a message, the text is not anti-aliased. How do I turn off anti-aliasing for viewing messages in Outlook? (Microsoft’s name for anti-aliasing … Read more

Override font smoothing (antialiasing) method in Google Sheets grid (Firefox)

How to override font smoothing used in Google Sheets grid to make fonts sharp (as everywhere else on a page)? As you can see from the screenshot below, most of the elements use sharp font (standard Windows smoothing, not Clear Type). Even text in a cell edit textbox is OK (see ‘World’ word). But column … Read more

Turn Off Anti-aliasing in Outlook 2003

I am running Outlook 2003 in Windows 7×64 with Internet Explorer 9. When I read a mail in the Reading Pane or by opening it, the text is anti-aliased. When I reply to a message, the text is not anti-aliased. How do I turn off anti-aliasing for viewing messages in Outlook? (Microsoft’s name for anti-aliasing … Read more

Override font smoothing (antialiasing) method in Google Sheets grid (Firefox)

How to override font smoothing used in Google Sheets grid to make fonts sharp (as everywhere else on a page)? As you can see from the screenshot below, most of the elements use sharp font (standard Windows smoothing, not Clear Type). Even text in a cell edit textbox is OK (see ‘World’ word). But column … Read more