# Pixalated Font on retina display

**URL:** <https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/pixalated-font-on-retina-display/435>\
**Category:** Using Cinder\
**Created:** [December 7, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/pixalated-font-on-retina-display/435 "2016-12-07T20:43:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![hperigo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.libcinder.org/hperigo/32/409_2.png) [@hperigo](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/hperigo)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 8:43pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/pixalated-font-on-retina-display/435/1 "2016-12-07T20:43:34Z")

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![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/libcinder/original/1X/5dc2fe7eae4c9fadb0b81edf5f6782539f18a710.png)

On the left is the font using cinder, on the right is the same font on Illustrator.

Any ideas for what is going on? This only happens with retina displays =/

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**Author:** ![balachandran\_c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@balachandran\_c](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/balachandran_c)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 9:02pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/pixalated-font-on-retina-display/435/2 "2016-12-07T21:02:16Z")

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Is it affected by AppBase::Settings::setHighDensityDisplayEnabled?

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**Author:** ![hperigo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.libcinder.org/hperigo/32/409_2.png) [@hperigo](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/hperigo)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2016, 9:08pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/pixalated-font-on-retina-display/435/3 "2016-12-07T21:08:23Z")

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![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/libcinder/original/1X/fbac2d59068192985a31511b31f0daa97956069b.png)

Hi @balachandran_c, If I do that, everything get’s rendered off scale ( bigger ) on the retina display. On a non-retina everything is normal

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**Author:** ![gabor\_papp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.libcinder.org/gabor_papp/32/769_2.png) [@gabor\_papp](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/gabor_papp)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2016, 9:43am UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/pixalated-font-on-retina-display/435/4 "2016-12-08T09:43:05Z")

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Are you using `toPixels`? Related forum post from the old forum [https://forum.libcinder.org/topic/rfc-retina-high-density-display-support](https://forum.libcinder.org/topic/rfc-retina-high-density-display-support).

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**Author:** ![drewish](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.libcinder.org/drewish/32/110_2.png) [@drewish](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/drewish)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 6:52am UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/pixalated-font-on-retina-display/435/5 "2017-01-11T06:52:06Z")

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I’m seeing some odd blurring behavior when trying to use the PretzelGui block: [https://github.com/cwhitney/PretzelGui/issues/22](https://github.com/cwhitney/PretzelGui/issues/22)

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**Author:** ![drewish](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.libcinder.org/drewish/32/110_2.png) [@drewish](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/drewish)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2017, 7:02am UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/pixalated-font-on-retina-display/435/6 "2017-01-11T07:02:39Z")

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Here’s the TextureFontApp rendering Arial 12 with `setHighDensityDisplayEnabled(false)`

 ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/libcinder/original/1X/bb52a53b925cd7bc74cf176a9ee937da7e2f41a2.png)

And with `setHighDensityDisplayEnabled(true)`

 ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/libcinder/original/1X/a72e39e3c66cda216986b28c376ef20f0f5dff6e.png)