Jagged fonts?

[Provazi]

Hello,

Viewing in Photoshop (100%):

Viewing in InDesign (300%, same screen size as PS):

Viewing at 100% in InDesign:

Why do fonts now appear jagged and irregular in Indesign? I've used other fonts — same problem.
I’m using a previous version because the latest version has bugs — especially when using high-quality display.

How can I fix this? I want to use anti-aliasing for fonts whenever possible.

Adobe Indesign 20.0 x64

Adobe Photoshop Version: 26.2.0 20241207.r.140 bc85906 x64
Operating System: Windows 10 64-bit

GPUName: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650

[James Gifford—NitroPress · Accepted solution]

Font display quality largely comes down to four things: the physical screen resolution (which is rarely an issue these days, but used to be); the settings of the video adapter (again, not much of a problem on any working system); the resolution and quality setting of the app — that choice, in InDesign, between Fast and Quality display — and then the quality of the font itself. If the font does not have good hinting and other metadata, it may not adapt well to every increment of resolution.

Just off the cuff, this looks like an out of the ordinary font, possibly from a less than meticulous foundry/source, and the ragged display may be caused by a gap between what the system needs for smoothing and clean edges and the font data that isn't that detailed.