Related article: What Mojave Broke and How to Fix It The enabled setting provides a somewhat more bold-looking font with more anti-aliasing (smoothing jagged edges on curved lines and diagonals). (Toggling the font smoothing checkbox may resolve blurry text issues)ĭepending on the Mac’s display and your personal preference, you may find that text looks “better” to you when font smoothing is disabled by unchecking the box, or vice versa. At the bottom of the General pane is a check box titled “Use font smoothing when available” (see screenshot below). The first method of making those blurry letters look more like printed text is to enable - or disable - font smoothing in macOS Mojave.ġ) Click on the Apple menu () and select “System Preferences”.Ģ) Click the “General” System Preference, found in the upper left corner of the System Preferences window. We’ll cover three ways to make the necessary adjustments on your Mac. As such, the methods discussed in this article to smooth fonts aren’t recommended for Macs with Retina displays.
Not all Macs experience the fuzzy text issue it appears to be most prevalent with non-Retina displays. Related article: How to Downgrade from Mojave It doesn’t appear that the issue was resolved with the first release of Mojave, so we’re here today with some tips on how to make text appear as sharp and clear on your Mac as you expect. The issue appears to be caused a change in the way that Mojave handles font rendering and anti-aliasing, two factors that define how smooth text appears on a screen. During the beta testing of macOS 10.14 Mojave, some testers noticed that under certain circumstances, text on the screen appeared blurry.