February 28, 201214 yr Hi All Hope somebody can help me. My hair is being pulled out..... Working on a site - thankfully nearly finished. www.lupee.co.uk/banan_joom One problem we have is the font on the home page text appears in bold when viewing on a mac in Firefox and Safari. It looks odd and I need to get it fixed. Any ideas? It's driving me nutttttsssss. Pedro!
February 28, 201214 yr Fonts appear bolder on a Mac because when antialiasing OSX respects the vector outline of the font whereas Windows tries to fit the pixel grid. If it's genuinely appearing the same weight as a bold font, it might be that you haven't specified the weight in a font kit? Haven't checked if you're using @font-face, I'm on my phone.
February 29, 201214 yr Fonts appear bolder on a Mac because when antialiasing OSX respects the vector outline of the font whereas Windows tries to fit the pixel grid. If it's genuinely appearing the same weight as a bold font, it might be that you haven't specified the weight in a font kit? Haven't checked if you're using @font-face, I'm on my phone. This. Font rendering in OSX is far bolder than Windows, you just have to get used to it. Also, make sure you've defined a weight and the font isn't using a fallback.
February 29, 201214 yr Author This. Font rendering in OSX is far bolder than Windows, you just have to get used to it. Also, make sure you've defined a weight and the font isn't using a fallback. I have specified the font weight at 100 - am only using Arial - so do I need to used fontface?
February 29, 201214 yr There's your problem - the numeric font-weight values still aren't widely supported.
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