Ugly fonts in IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 14.0 Windows 8.1

Question

I use macType which renders fonts beautifully elsewhere except Intellij.

I tried to configure Intellij through these Java options

-Dawt.useSystemAAFo         


        

Answer 1

Java applications don't work well with MacType. Take a look at the discussion here: https://code.google.com/p/mactype/issues/detail?id=53

You could try gdipp instead. https://code.google.com/p/gdipp/. You may have to set the embolden parameter in its settings file to 6 or 7 atleast for all the glyphs to display correctly.

Intellij does not allow you to choose Ubuntu Bold because it is not a monospace font, but if you check Show Only Monospaced fonts, it should work.