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After publishing the Customizing iTerm2 post I was really bothered by the way the font was looking in the code block. Some people are more comfortable with anti-aliased fonts all the time, I personally can’t write or read code like that. I like looking at Monaco in 10pt without any anti-aliasing, just plain old pixels, so this was obviously bothering me.

I did some poking around, asked Google, asked my sister but there seems to be no solution for it. Nothing that’ll work properly on every browser (why isn’t that surprising). There was something called font-smooth  in the CSS3 specification in 2002 but they later removed it from the standard. MDN has a page on it only stating that they don’t implement it. There is however a purely webkit alternative called –webkit-font-smoothing  that lets you do almost the same thing. I found a pretty extensive blog post about it which came with a demo page. I found some hacks to get fake anti-aliasing that were pretty interesting, but nothing to get rid of it.

.crayon-line {
    font-smooth: never;
	-webkit-font-smoothing: none;
}

For now I’ll be happy with the following CSS and hope that font-smooth finds its way back to the CSS specification.
 

I recently switched to iTerm2 from the normal MacOSX Terminal. The main reason for the switch was the split window feature that I really needed in my Terminal (Emacs spoils everyone).  iTerm has some really nice features and is customizable. I used to use two screens on my Mac Mini and iTerm played well with that too.
I’ve been a great fan of Monokai the color theme since I bought a TextMate license in high school. I even ported it for Emacs when I switched from TextMate. There was no reason to not use it for iTerm, so I made the color theme for iTerm.

I’ve also made a few customizations to my .bash_profile  and.gitconfig  to neatly typeset information and take advantage of the beautiful colors.

[color]
        diff = auto
        status = auto
        branch = auto
        interactive = auto
        ui = true
        pager = true
[color "branch"]
        current = yellow reverse
        local = yellow
        remote = green
[color "diff"]
        meta = yellow
        frag = magenta
        old = red
        new = green
[color "status"]
        added = yellow
        changed = green
        untracked = cyan
[alias]
        tree = log --graph --pretty=oneline
        lg = log --color --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset' --abbrev-commit

PS1="\n\n\n\n\033[01;32m\]user@machine \[\033[01;34m\]\w \[\033[0;31m\]\$(parse_git_branch)\n:> \[\033[0;33m\]"
PS2=':> '

 
I hope to port Monokai to the Crayon Syntax Highlighter and the Adium Terminal Message Style soon. Till then enjoy the iTerm2 theme.