macOS Big Sur removed the option of disabling font smoothing in System Preferences. This tiny, free, open source app lets you easily adjust the level of font smoothing on your Mac, or disable it altogether, without needing to use a terminal. Warning: fontsmoothingadjuster.com is no longer associated with Font Smoothing Adjuster. Do not use the old domain to download the app. Official downloads are available on GitHub Releases.
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macOS Big Sur uses default font smoothing settings that make your fonts blurrier, bolder and mess with carefully designed character shapes. As of Big Sur, there is now also no way to change this through System Preferences.
This annoyed us, so we made a tiny app that lets you easily choose what level of font smoothing you would like, or disable it altogether, even for people who are not comfortable using a terminal.
This free and open source app is available to download from GitHub Releases.
We hope you find it useful!
Warning: fontsmoothingadjuster[.]com is no longer associated with Font Smoothing Adjuster. Do not use the old domain to download the app. Official downloads are available on GitHub Releases.