Hi, It remembers me that recently (within 2 months), somebody proposed 2 patchs to enable freetype LCDFilter for awt & javafx.
Both patches are integrated in jdk12 & jfx 12 ... probably a backport to jdk11u & jfx11u is in progress... Please test latest version, first. My 2 cents, Laurent Le mer. 28 nov. 2018 à 16:49, Kirill Grouchnikov < kirill.grouchni...@gmail.com> a écrit : > I've sent this one a couple of days ago, and looks like it fell through the > moderation cracks since it had an image attached to it. So sending this > again... > > So I spent some time today looking into font rendering on the latest macOS > 10.14 (Mojave), I came across > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476873 > that says that it has removed the subpixel anti-aliasing setting. There's a > new one under "General" named "Use font smoothing when available". > > When that setting is on (which is by default), font rendering in Swing with > the recommended awt.font.desktophints system property is too heavy. Looking > at how > > https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/platform/editor-ui-api/src/com/intellij/ide/ui/UISettings.kt > is doing it (lines 399-420) it appears that they are setting > KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING to VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_OFF, and doing that in Swing > results in font rendering that is consistent with native apps. > > Then I looked at how JavaFX font rendering looks like with locally built > https://github.com/gluonhq/gluon-samples/tree/master/fifty-states > > No matter if that new platform setting is off or on, all the texts look > halo'd - zoom in on > https://www.pushing-pixels.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/javafx-mojave.png > and see all those pink / light blue pixels around glyphs. > > Am I running the demo wrong? >
