Re: Text rendering on Mojave (macOS)

2018-11-28 Thread John Neffenger
On 11/28/18 7:47 AM, Kirill Grouchnikov wrote: 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. The text in that

Re: Text rendering on Mojave (macOS)

2018-11-28 Thread Phil Race
freetype is not used at all by FX on Mac and is used by JDK *only* for dynamically loaded fonts including Type 1 fonts. All platform fonts are rendered via the platform renderer by both toolkits. So the freetype filter isn't relevant here. It is possible that along with removing sub-pixel AA as

Re: Text rendering on Mojave (macOS)

2018-11-28 Thread Laurent Bourgès
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

Text rendering on Mojave (macOS)

2018-11-28 Thread Kirill Grouchnikov
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