Disable Anti-Aliasing in Mac OS X Zoom

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<p>You probably know by now that you can zoom into anything in <a href="http://osxdaily.com/category/mac-os-x/">Mac OS X</a> by holding down the Control key and then using the scroll wheel or a two-fingered forward swipe on the trackpad. You’ve also probably noticed that the more you zoom in, the blurrier things get because you’re zooming into anti-aliased graphics and text.</p>

<h2 style="font-size:1.2em;">Toggle & Disable Anti-Aliasing in Mac OS X Zoom</h2>

<p>You can disable and toggle the anti-aliasing within the Mac OS X Zoom feature by hitting <strong>Command+Option+</strong> after the zoom feature is activated. In other words, Control+Scroll to zoom, and then hit Command+Option+ to toggle anti-aliasing. </p>

<p>Here’s before and after pictures of what text looks toggling the anti-aliasing:</p>

<p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/anti-alias-enabled-zoom.jpg" alt="anti-alias enabled zoom" title="anti-alias enabled zoom" width="603" height="110" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11378" /></p>

<p>And after, the text is much more crisp:</p>

<p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/disable-anti-aliasing-when-zooming.jpg" alt="disable anti-aliasing when zooming" title="disable anti-aliasing when zooming" width="600" height="112" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-11379" /></p>

<p>This effects all on-screen graphics, not just text.</p>

<p>Thanks to Marcus for sending this in!</p>

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