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Re:Guido van Rossum on PyCharm by limmeau on Thursday April 28, 2011 @03:49AM (#2492554)
Depending on a lot of version numbers, you may have to pass

          -Dswing.aatext=true
          -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on
to your JVM. I don't know why the default is "ugly 1990s-style", but those settings made Netbeans usable for me (for long enough to discover I still prefer Eclipse, except for the profiler).
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Re:Guido van Rossum on PyCharm by afsina on Thursday April 28, 2011 @04:06AM (#2492584)
AFAIK There is a setting in editor->Appearance->Use Anti Aliased Fonts and, as other commenter said Oracle JRE may have better font rendering than Open JDK.
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Re:Guido van Rossum on PyCharm by nek4life on Thursday April 28, 2011 @10:43AM (#2493499)
On OS X you can add

apple.awt.rendering = quality

to the info.plist properties section in the .app Contents folder and it seems to make the fonts a little smoother as well.

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Re:Guido van Rossum on PyCharm by gojomo on Thursday April 28, 2011 @04:02AM (#2492576)
Trying Oracle's JDK often helps with such things, as well.
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