Don't you hate being a font-rendering snob and then realizing you've been staring at something ugly for months without realizing it?
I'm not being snide; it's happened to me. I used to be a typesetter, and yet when I had trouble using Inconsolata in Sublime Text, I reverted back to Menlo, which I hated - and spent the next few months preaching about how hard I'd worked to find the Perfect Programmer Font For Me, not realizing I wasn't actually looking it in the editor. Worse, I was seeing it in Terminal; I had no excuse.
It's the visual equivalent of the classic audio production goof: You spend hours tweaking a particular equalizer setting, everybody agrees that it sounds perfect now, and then realize the EQ hasn't been patched in at all and you've been changing nothing.
I just stopped using the monitor after half an hour of using OS X on it and gave it to my roommate, since I'm hardly ever home anyway. Now it's back on my desk again.
It bugs me that I thought I needed a better screen instead of instantly seeing what's the issue. Especially since I used to play around a lot with the Freetype settings in Ubuntu and should have known what makes the fonts look the way they do.
But then again I trusted Apple to not let this kind of stuff happen.
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Don't you hate being a font-rendering snob and then realizing you've been staring at something ugly for months without realizing it?
I'm not being snide; it's happened to me. I used to be a typesetter, and yet when I had trouble using Inconsolata in Sublime Text, I reverted back to Menlo, which I hated - and spent the next few months preaching about how hard I'd worked to find the Perfect Programmer Font For Me, not realizing I wasn't actually looking it in the editor. Worse, I was seeing it in Terminal; I had no excuse.
It's the visual equivalent of the classic audio production goof: You spend hours tweaking a particular equalizer setting, everybody agrees that it sounds perfect now, and then realize the EQ hasn't been patched in at all and you've been changing nothing.
I just stopped using the monitor after half an hour of using OS X on it and gave it to my roommate, since I'm hardly ever home anyway. Now it's back on my desk again.
It bugs me that I thought I needed a better screen instead of instantly seeing what's the issue. Especially since I used to play around a lot with the Freetype settings in Ubuntu and should have known what makes the fonts look the way they do.
But then again I trusted Apple to not let this kind of stuff happen.