{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/adobe/brackets/issues/11013","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/adobe/brackets/issues/11013/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/adobe/brackets/issues/11013/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/adobe/brackets/issues/11013/events","html_url":"https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/11013","id":71651805,"number":11013,"title":"Bad font rendering makes text hard to read","user":{"login":"arrbie","id":9554571,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9554571?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie","html_url":"https://github.com/arrbie","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/adobe/brackets/labels/Mac%20only","name":"Mac only","color":"02d7e1"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/adobe/brackets/labels/medium%20priority","name":"medium priority","color":"fbca04"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/adobe/brackets/milestones/36","html_url":"https://github.com/adobe/brackets/milestones/Release%201.4","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/adobe/brackets/milestones/36/labels","id":1048084,"number":36,"title":"Release 1.4","description":"","creator":{"login":"ryanstewart","id":45450,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/45450?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/ryanstewart","html_url":"https://github.com/ryanstewart","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ryanstewart/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ryanstewart/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ryanstewart/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ryanstewart/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ryanstewart/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ryanstewart/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ryanstewart/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ryanstewart/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/ryanstewart/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"open_issues":25,"closed_issues":1,"state":"open","created_at":"2015-04-01T04:03:49Z","updated_at":"2015-05-04T10:59:39Z","due_on":"2015-05-31T18:30:00Z","closed_at":null},"comments":8,"created_at":"2015-04-28T17:28:55Z","updated_at":"2015-05-04T13:48:05Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Text rendering in Brackets is of very low quality and subpar other text editors. Eyes become tired and you need to increase the text size to compensate for the low readability. To me this is a deal-breaker.\r\n\r\nThe effect is quite independent of choice of font, and is especially true for the default font 'SourceCodePro-Medium', but also for 'Menlo-Regular' (pics below).\r\n\r\nIt's as if Brackets weren't even using the Mac's built-in font rendering API:s for text areas. Adobe, are you fiddling on your own with the text rendering algorithms here? I know you are masters of graphics – especially typography – but I think you should trust Apple on this one, and you get it for free. This is NOT a matter of differences in aesthetic opinions. Just follow the system defaults like all other Mac applications do and we'll all be happy. (Already pointed out by drewhamlett at GitHub back in 2013)\r\n\r\nSee comparison of screen dumps from Brackets (top pic) vs Smultron (bottom pic) running on the same machine. This font is \"Menlo-Regular\" 11pts (or \"px\" as Brackets says). Pay attention to the letters in the word \"supplied\". Every single letter (except the \"i\", which is actually too thin) is much more unclear, smudged out, and of varying thickness on the Brackets version.\r\n\r\n![brackets](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/9554571/7375715/c5994246-edda-11e4-883d-d806ab5a35d8.png)\r\n![smultron](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/9554571/7375716/c5b934ca-edda-11e4-9cd0-b30b1eab7597.png)\r\n\r\nThis problem is true not only for the actual text area, but also for all other text inside the Brackets windows, ie sidebar, window title, modal dialogs etc.\r\n\r\nBrackets version: Release 1.3 build 1.3.0-16022\r\nOS: Mac OS X 10.10.3\r\nHardware: MacBook Air 13\" (1440-900 px)\r\nExtensions: None (fresh factory install)"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/adobe/brackets/issues/comments/98708640","html_url":"https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/11013#issuecomment-98708640","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/adobe/brackets/issues/11013","id":98708640,"user":{"login":"arrbie","id":9554571,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9554571?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie","html_url":"https://github.com/arrbie","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/arrbie/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-05-04T13:48:05Z","updated_at":"2015-05-04T13:48:05Z","body":"CEF is crap for the Brackets product. I wish Brackets had used the built-in web rendering API:s of each OS (platform) instead."}}