Removing
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts
from eclipse.ini and changing the font to menlo seems to improve the situation a bit. However the font is still a bit unsharp, compared to Xcode.
I don’t see why they ship it like that or do they just don’t care about the mac version?
What version of OSX and of Eclipse are you using?
smallFonts were fixed for SWT Cocoa only in 3.5.
(picture of font menlo in action)
