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Re:Hello Mac OS X Tiger by kitsunesoba on Monday January 17, 2022 @10:32AM (#29967539)
At some point, window shadows became much more diffused. I think the release that implemented this change was mountain lion.

I keep a Snow Leopard VM around to occasionally run old software in and the difference in shadow size is always striking. I personally like the more focused look of pre-10.7 shadows.

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Re:Hello Mac OS X Tiger by Wowfunhappy on Monday January 17, 2022 @06:46PM (#29973033)
I just took a look, and I really can't see any difference between the window shadows on my Mavericks machine and my Snow Leopard VM. The Mavericks shadows may be ever-so-slightly stronger.

You may be thinking of Yosemite, which definitely toned down the shadows a bit as part of flattening everything.

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Re:Hello Mac OS X Tiger by yoz-y on Monday January 17, 2022 @01:56PM (#29970283)
Ah yes. When looking at it it does indeed look darker towards the window in the screenshots.
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