If the fonts on your screen look fuzzy, blurry, or jagged, you may want to adjust the font smoothing style or change the text size at which OS X starts to smooth fonts. Fonts may also be distorted when exporting to a PDF file. You can adjust font smoothing settings to smooth the fonts exported to PDF files.
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Open System Preferences and click Appearance.
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To turn on font smoothing in Mac OS X v10.6 or later, select “Use LCD font smoothing when available.”
To specify a font smoothing style in Mac OS X v10.5.7 or earlier, choose a font smoothing style from the “Font smoothing style” pop-up menu.
Depending on the type of display you have, you may notice only small or no differences between smoothing styles.
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If you plan to use small font sizes in your document, choose a point size from the “Turn off text smoothing for font sizes” pop-up menu.
When text smoothing (“antialiasing”) is on, smaller fonts can be harder to read so you may want to turn it off for smaller font sizes.
To learn more about font smoothing in OS X, click the Help button in the lower-right corner of the Appearance preferences window.