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I am new to Mac, and I am finding that the fonts are not smooth.
Changing the system defaults (defaults write -g AppleFontSmoothing -int 2, "Use LCD font smoothing" checked) do not improve the fonts.
Here is a comparison of rendering in Terminal (above) and EMACS (below), both with Monaco-16.
System: MacBook Pro with OS X 10.8.2
Try to clear and rebuild your font cache with the following:
sudo atsutil databases -remove
sudo atsutil server -shutdown
sudo atsutil server -ping
The above is "my standard answer" to font problems.
After your reply, I tried to download the font too. Installed it and in the Terminal.app got the same result as you. So +1 to the question - I'm interested too.
So,
after it, for the test:
so again for ttf - and have a working version in my Terminal.app
Haven't any idea why the otf version does not work. ;(
Retina must be supported by the app for it to be displayed in Retina. If the app does not support Retina then the app will not be displayed in Retina.
You may be able to force Retina for an app with Retinizer:
Retinizer is a small app I wrote that allows apps that aren’t retina ready and are displayed pixelated at 1x to display their UI widgets at 2x. That way, only their custom images will look bad and not the whole app.
Best Answer
Open up the Preferences in Terminal and check "Antialias Text" under the Text tab of the Settings page. This is the page that shows different "Profiles" for your Terminal appearance as well.