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macOS Mojave: font rendering is blurry or has changed #51132
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If you have updated to macOS 10.14 (Mojave) you might have noticed that fonts in VSCode are looking blurry if you are not using a high-DPI monitor. A workaround for this is to run
from the terminal followed by a restart to get back the previous behaviour. Note that this change is global for every application and not specific to VSCode.
d0182c3417d225529c6d5ad24b7572815d0de9acSteps to Reproduce:
Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes
This is how the fonts look:

I don't expect this is a VSCode issue, but just incase wanted to bring it up earlier rather than later.