OSX fonts

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lemarqq

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Hello guys.
After i Google it a lot, i cannot find what i want.I use Snow Leopard and i find is a really great OS, but the fonts for browsing ( Mozilla Firefox / Safari / Google Chrome ) are odd.
I tried everything possible, i used TinkerTool, too. I enabled / disabled font smoothing style, from System Preferences - Appereance, but i don't like it.
Is there a trick / software which allows the fonts ( for browsing ) to look exactly like in Windows 7 ?
They looks very sharp / clear / nice / under Windows 7.
Is there something about "patent / copyright fonts" between Apple and Microsoft ?
Maybe i'm waisting my time looking / asking for that, but i hope ...
I would pay a lot, if i have too. Only to get those nice fonts on OSX browsing.
Can you give me some advices, please ?
Thanks in advance.
 
DeltaMac said:
If fonts have visual issues, then cleaning out the system font caches is a valid point to try.

Visual display of fonts is very different between Windows and OS X.
Here's a link that gives a concise explanation about some of the differences in font technology between MS and Apple.
http://www.quora.com/Why-do-fonts-look-so-wrong-to-me-as-a-Windows-users-going-to-Mac-OS-X
Click to expand...

All my fonts have no visual issues in OSX, but i thought there is a trick to "emulate" to have them like in Windows.
 
You will read in those articles that I linked, that, in the opinion of the writer, many computer users prefer what they are familiar with, or use the most - and not that one method of displaying fonts on-screen is necessarily better than another. The conclusion was that MS wants the screen fonts to be as readable as possible, perhaps to the point of sacrificing print quality. Apple, OTOH, typically goes for a consistent font display, where a document printout would provide a font with the same quality as the on-screen image, hopefully also truer to the original font design.

Bottom line - if you want the on-screen fonts to appear as they do in Windows - then you would need to use a Windows solution on the Mac (booting to Windows installed on your Mac using Boot Camp; or a virtualized Windows using Parallels Desktop, VirtualBox, or one of the other virtual environments that allows you to actually run Windows on your Mac.

I'm on the other side of the fence: As a long-time Mac user, I think fonts in Windows look terrible, although much improved through Vista, and now Win 7.

Does Safari on Win 7 display fonts as Windows provides, or does Safari on Win 7 show fonts much like on OS X (with the font anti-aliasing?)
 
OS X and Windows are different, and the way fonts are displayed is one of those differences. You won't easily change Windows to display fonts like in OS X, and vice versa.
As you move from one operating system to another, there will be areas where you will become accustomed to differences between those operating systems. Font display is just one of those areas.
I agree that Windows makes fonts clear on the screen. I don't agree that makes those fonts 'nice'. That would be your opinion, and it will be a point where we can agree to disagree.
 
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