visual studio code – How to disable ClearType/smoothing in VsCodium?

The following picture shows side to side VS 2026 18.6.0 (left) and VSCodium 1.116 (right), with the same font (CaskaydiaMono NF Regular), with ClearType disabled at the system level (Win 11 Pro 25H2).

How do I disable font smoothing in VSCodium and make it look like Visual Studio?
Maybe it seems unusual, but for my bad sight the blocky/sharpier fonts are less tiring.

Note that VS 2026 can be set to avoid smoothing even with ClearType enabled, but VSCodium seems to enforce(?) it anyways.
VsCode 1.120 has the same behavior of VSCodium.

I tried the settings from stackoverflow.com/a/71114869/10000855 to no avail.

Maybe there’s a key to help in “settings.json”?

VS 2026 with sharper font than VSCodium

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