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Font appears bold after OS-upgrade

#1

I used Sublime Text 3 before on my iMac with macOS High Sierra.
Today I made a clean upgrade to macOS Mojave (i.e. I formatted the hard drive and installed Mojave, to delete/reset all old settings in all applications).
Then I installed Sublime Text 3 and adopted the sittings to the settings I used before (and that I still use on my MacBook). Here they are (Preferences.sublime-settings – User):

{
	"close_window_when_empty": true,
	"color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme - Legacy/Eiffel.tmTheme",
	"font_size": 13,
	"ignored_packages":
	[
		"Vintage"
	],
	"open_files_in_new_window": false,
	"show_legacy_color_schemes": true,
	"theme": "Default.sublime-theme"
}

And this is Package Control.sublime-settings:

{
	"bootstrapped": true,
	"in_process_packages":
	[
	],
	"installed_packages":
	[
		"1337 Color Scheme",
		"Color Scheme - Legacy",
		"Package Control"
	]
}

These are exactly the settings that I used before I upgraded to Mojave and that I still use on my MacBook. But the font on my MacBook looks normal (i.e. not bold) while the font on my freshly upgrades iMac looks bold now (it was not bold before the upgrade).

All other fonts on my iMac (i.e. the fonts in all other applications) look the same as before, only the font in Sublime Text is bold.

I even tried

"font_options": ["no_bold"],

but it didn’t change anything.

I want normal (i.e. not bold) fonts again in Sublime Text 3. What must I doth achieve this goal?

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#2

This is because Apple removed subpixel antialiasing in Mojave (10.14). Fonts on retina displays look fine, but on non-retina displays, font rendering can be unpredictable.

Here’s how to fix the bold font in Sublime: https://ahmadawais.com/fix-macos-mojave-font-rendering-issue/

Note this is a system-wide change, but a welcome one in my opinion. :slight_smile:

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#3

There is actually another change that Apple made to the font rasterization that makes font look bolder. The next dev build will address this.

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