Why are all of my monospaced fonts suddenly so thin?

Yesterday I noticed that suddenly all of my monospaced fonts are completely messed up. Here's a about week old screenshot for comparison
This is how it looked before
And now
These are both from TextMate using Monaco 14, but the same issue happens with Menlo. I also tried to download Bistream Vera Sans Mono and it also looks pretty ugly.
This started happening to me yesterday and I actually reformatted the whole drive (not because of this), reinstalled Snow Leopard, upgraded back to Lion, didn't restore any backups and the fonts still look ugly.
I would understand if this started happening only after the reinstall, because that would mean I had some specific settings. But it started happening out of nowhere and persisted after clean reinstall of OS X Lion.
At one point I actually had some applications displaying the font correctly until I restarted them.
These examples are before I reinstalled Lion.
This is Xcode after restarting it
and the same code from terminal VIM, which I haven't turned off yet
these two were actually taken at the same time, both using the same font. But once I restarted the terminal, it started displaying it in the same messed up way.
Some people suggested the font smoothing in System Preferences, but I have that turned on

I managed to solve this with
defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2
more specific information can be found here

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