Anyone else with bad font smoothing in Brackets 1.1?

Question

So I've got Mactype installed which renders fonts beautifully on my Windows setup, but since I installed the latest version of Brackets v1.1 the font smoothing/anti-aliasing has been terrible.

Here's a comparison between version 1.0 and 1.1 .

v1.0

v1.1

I'm really not sure why it looks like this, I have tried clearing everything related with Brackets in ~\Appdata\Roaming\Brackets\ thinking it might be a conflict with some extensions I had installed but that didn't work, I'm guessing its a bug in the latest release.

Answer 1

Unfortunately I'm answering my own question, after doing a ton of research on the issue, I found out this was similar with font rendering issues I had been having in Chrome with mactype, I posted the issue on brackets' github and luckily someone else had the same bug in v1.2 and was able to get it working by starting a shortcut to Brackets with the switch --disable-direct-write .

Just append the switch to the end of your shortcut's target like this:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Brackets\Brackets.exe" --disable-direct-write

And make sure you're starting brackets from the shortcut. :)