Tdesktop: The font become bold on Mac

Created on 29 Sep 2018  路  7Comments  路  Source: telegramdesktop/tdesktop

I found every is bold. including group name and chat window and message box. It's too ugly.
My system is MacOS Mojave.

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picture smcdl

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You may want to try to reenable subpixel antialiasing:
defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool FALSE

picture dketterer on 24 Oct 2018
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@smcdl Cam you provide a screenshot?

john-preston picture john-preston on 29 Sep 2018

In macOS Mojave subpixel font anti-aliasing seems to be removed. While all text in the OS does look different, the text in telegram desktop looks extremely different, almost bold. See the attached screenshot.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2018/07/13/macos-10-14-mojave-removes-subpixel-anti-aliasing/

telegram_macos_bold_font

Floens picture Floens on 30 Sep 2018
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You may want to try to reenable subpixel antialiasing:
defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool FALSE

dketterer picture dketterer on 24 Oct 2018
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Will this be addressed in a future release for users that may not be familiar with finding bugs in github?

dardub picture dardub on 13 Nov 2018
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Got same in ArchLinux.

top4ek picture top4ek on 15 Dec 2018
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@dketterer's answer fixed it for Catalina as well.

dielsonsales picture dielsonsales on 16 Mar 2020

According to https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-68824, it should be fixed since 1.9.0

ilya-fedin picture ilya-fedin on 10 Apr 2020
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