Thanks Jeff, but that was the first thing I tried. The next thing was the .conf edit from Kris Rice's blog. Neither appear to have any effect on SQL Dev 3 running on XP with Cleartype enabled. In 11pt Consolas a bold 'm' is a solid rectangle. William On 19 Jul 2012, at 13:40, Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Your earlier note on 'the blocky fonts' in Oracle SQL Developer. Your one setting away from fixing that. Tools > Preferences > Code Editor > Display > Enable Text Anti-Aliasing We're going to make that the default selection going forward. Jeff On 7/19/2012 3:28 AM, William Robertson wrote: > but the blocky fonts -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l