Safari fonts too bold

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I am sure I am not the only person that has noticed this. Fonts on safari look much bolder and fatter. Every other browser renders fonts exactly the same way but for some reason safari decides to render fonts bolder, so normal fonts look bold and bold fonts look really really bold and fat and ugly and very hard to read.

Is there a way to make safari render fonts the same way every other browser does? Or is there a better alternative to the arial font that looks normal and as it should on other browsers but not completley retarded on safari?

I get that apple likes to try and be unique and hip for their marketing image or whatever, but really whats the point of this font thing?

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I run Safari (Windows version) and that seems to be the default setting - see Edit>Preferences>Appearance>Font smoothing for options. I don’t know whether Safari adjusts itsself according to your monitor type when you install it.

So the answer to your question is “probably not”.

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I tested those settings. None of them look normal, all too bold, except for the “standard” setting which actually looks too weak. Well I will let the mac users worry about that.

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Mac users are used to seeing fonts rendered differently anyway, so I don’t see an issue…

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People who choose Safari as their browser are also choosing against those super-skinny anorexic jagged Windows fonts. Respect the full-bodiedness of Safari’s natural curves! Not fat just big boned! Just as you must respect their AquaMangaTeenCandyFunTime scrollbars and form buttons. It’s part of the browser.

Cause Mac users can switch to FF or some other browser (and I don’t know any Mac users myself who use Safari; they’re all using FF).

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Yeah. Get used to it. Your web page looks different on different browsers and on different systems. The Web is not paper.

Designing on the assumption that all browsers will render exactly is just a road to heartache and frustration.

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Part of the reason that people choose a particular browser is that they prefer the way it displays web pages over the way that other browsers do.

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That is true browsers all have different interfaces but every other browser(firefox, opera, ie, chrome) seem to render the fonts exactly the same way. So it came as a surprise to me.

The only differences I have really in browsers are those that are text only, and those that have rendering issues because of bugs(ie). Besides that choosing a browser seemed more to me about the functionality and interface window and not the rendering of the webpage itself.

The fonts on apple’s site look pretty much the same in all browsers which I find strange -it looks good. Any idea what font they use?

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Beats me why anyone uses safari. I only use it for testing purposes.

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Well it is installed by default on Mac’s and it’s pretty web standards savvy, though I would not use it by default, I much prefer Opera. :slight_smile:

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I meant the majority of people who use windows. mac users are a different breed aren’t they? :wink: