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Here is the fix for ugly fonts on non retina in Mojave

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Most google searches will tell you to play with
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing
For me, that did nothing except change the level of how ugly it was from really ugly to very much still ugly.


But the command that fixed fonts on my non retina monitor was this one:
defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO
 
Most google searches will tell you to play with
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing
For me, that did nothing except change the level of how ugly it was from really ugly to very much still ugly.


But the command that fixed fonts on my non retina monitor was this one:
defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO
Thank you. Excuse me do you know how to fix wrong color saturation?
 
Thank you. Excuse me do you know how to fix wrong color saturation?

I think maybe you have the RGB colorspace issue. Search google for:
Force RGB mode in Mac OS X
 
Stupid question but is this a one-time Terminal command or does it need to be added to the Clover config.plist?
 
Looks like that command does enable the sub pixel anti-aliasing.

Screenshot 2018-09-26 at 16.12.52.png
 
Stupid question but is this a one-time Terminal command or does it need to be added to the Clover config.plist?

one-time macOS setting, not related to the clover config.plist
 
I think maybe you have the RGB colorspace issue. Search google for:
Force RGB mode in Mac OS X
Dude. You're the best !! This fixed it, thank you for real !!!!!!!
 
Most google searches will tell you to play with
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing
For me, that did nothing except change the level of how ugly it was from really ugly to very much still ugly.

But the command that fixed fonts on my non retina monitor was this one:
defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO

I've tried both of these and they are not working. Coffee Lake i7 UHD630 with 16 GB RAM. Is there a solution to fixing font rendering for non-Retina displays?
 
I'm not sure if you are aware of this in System Preferences/General? Works well on my 4k Dell monitors... give it a try, you might have to logout after changing it.
Screen Shot 2018-12-28 at 11.58.47 am.png

Screen Shot 2018-12-28 at 11.58.55 am.png
 
Thanks much. Yes, I have font smoothing enabled. I tried with and without and neither does the job. I have a Philips 27" display.
 
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