From 878ee1bb6c6dccf93dd7850720ef5d0e728d12d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhiming Wang Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 18:40:20 -0800 Subject: Spoiled by Retina follow-up --- source/blog/2015-12-16-spoiled-by-retina-in-less-than-a-day.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'source') diff --git a/source/blog/2015-12-16-spoiled-by-retina-in-less-than-a-day.md b/source/blog/2015-12-16-spoiled-by-retina-in-less-than-a-day.md index 46728bc5..49389a3a 100644 --- a/source/blog/2015-12-16-spoiled-by-retina-in-less-than-a-day.md +++ b/source/blog/2015-12-16-spoiled-by-retina-in-less-than-a-day.md @@ -15,6 +15,10 @@ Transition periods are always awkward, I guess. **12/17/2015 Update.** After more than a full day's use, I actually quite love 10pt Monaco on a Retina display. I tried various fonts, including Menlo, Consolas and so on, but none of them has that whimsical feeling of Monaco. Hopefully the font is stuck now. +--- + +**12/28/2015 Update.** A dozen days later, I can hardly look at 10pt Monaco on a non-Retina screen anymore, antialiased or not, especially not in bold. Mind blown. + [^replace]: I haven't got the nerve to replace the hard drive myself, since it looks so much more complicated than upgrading the memory. [^pdfs]: PDFs looked so horrible in Preview (and TeXShop, my LaTeX previewer, which only serves a niche) that I often viewed them in browsers (!!), where text at least looks reasonable (on par with slightly blurry text elsewhere). PDF Expert came along and kind of made the situation better for non-Retina. -- cgit v1.2.1