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Do you just need people to look at the images and tell if they're ok or not?

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many of the fonts render differently on the various platforms. It would be helpful to know if there are dramatic differences for the fonts in the collection so that I can comment on it in a font specific readme file. Ideally, we post additional images for those fonts

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Edit: I deleted my previous comment about subpixel ordering, I got tricked by your bright colorscheme. :)

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Spacegray for Sublime Text: https://kkga.github.io/spacegray/

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At first I assumed all pictures were JPEGs. FYI, every single image looks kinda weird to me. But it's really hard to tell what the issue is. For all I know, it's just the washed out colors playing a trick on my mind, making me believe that the quality is bad.

I'll see if I can find a similar color scheme for vim and compare, I don't have sublime text.

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Do the images with the light grey background scheme look any better?

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Yes, they look better, but most/all of them still appear to have some aliasing.

Here's a comparison, "Consola mono" in gvim on top, and your image of the same font on the bottom:

http://i.imgur.com/9K26khA.png

I think the text on top looks a lot smoother.

Edit: That might be very subjective though. Maybe I'm just too used to the way it looks on my PC.

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Some reads that I found that seem to get to the heart of this issue. OS X renders fonts differently than both Windows and Linux systems. What looks normal to me, likely does look unusual to you. OS X tends to have heavier glyphs with more antialiasing than you are used to seeing on either of the other platforms.

Atwood on Apple vs. Windows font rendering:

• http://blog.codinghorror.com/font-rendering-respecting-the-pixel-grid/
• http://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-wrong-with-apples-font-rendering/

Joel Spolsky on the same issue:

• http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html

More discussion about the issue:

• http://damieng.com/blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosophies-of-windows-and-mac-os-x

Mac vs Linux rendering:

• http://arunoda.me/blog/font-rendering-mac-vs-ubunut.html

Disabling Mac default antialiasing:

• http://osxdaily.com/2010/02/18/change-font-smoothing-settings/ (apparently you can turn it off)

They are relatively old articles, not sure how much has changed in newer OS X versions.

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Attempting to address this issue with PR #49

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See discussion in PR #49

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