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Dev tools · February 9, 2021

Font Smoothing Adjuster

Open source app to adjust font smoothing settings in Big Sur

Font Smoothing Adjuster launched on February 9, 2021 with 67 votes, #746 of 3,134 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.

What it does

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.

Font Smoothing Adjuster is a tiny, native macOS app that lets you adjust your font smoothing preferences in a graphical user interface. - bouncetechnologies/Font-Smoothing-Adjuster

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