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Mac OS X Font Rendering
Now that Safari 3 is out on Windows, we’re getting a revived discussion of Mac OS X font rendering vs. Windows. Windows guys seem to hate the way that Safari renders fonts. Though it appears to depend on if you wear spectacles, and how far away from the screen you sit.
Here’s the real truth: they’re just different.
Here’s something else you can discuss in the pub: there are a whole lot of Windows users that use dismal quality displays. Windows compensates for this by making the fonts more spindly, so that when they’ve gone through the display technology they look reasonable. Mac OS X rendering is more precise, designed for all media, not just displays. The extra fuzziness caused by the display makes the fonts appear overly blurry.
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