Users who prefer the light or strong options may be upset by this change-my only guess is this is related to some kind of optimization. The 'medium' level-the default for flat panel displays-is now the only option.
First, users will no longer be able to select various grades of anti-aliasing like they have in past versions of Mac OS X. One change, though, signals a sort of end of the line for the veritable Monaco monospaced typeface.Ĭhinese computer science student Jjgod Jiang discovered a few interesting details about how fonts are handled by Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
The changes likely won't affect many users, but the Mac has always attracted a number of users who are sticklers about typography. Several changes are coming to the way Mac OS X handles fonts with the release of Snow Leopard.
