Hello, when making websites, i discovered that all my text is bold for some reason when viewing on firefox and safari on a mac. Its perfect on a pc. Was wondering if anyone has experienced this and has a solution.

Thanks very much.

Hopefully these images will explain better:

Viewed on any mac browser (FF and Safari):



Viewed on PC browser (FF and IE):



Any ideas?

If setting "font-weight: normal;" changes nothing then it's probably just the different anti-aliasing. Windows prefers sharper fonts, and Mac prefers more blurred/blended edges. I'm not aware of any way to switch the AA settings in the browser. The other fun thing is that Linux has the capacity to do both of these (though since the Mac one has patents attached it's more likely to be closer to Windows than Mac) and other fun things with fonts.

In the end, you have to deal with the fact that some people prefer to have those more blurred fonts, so you need to make the website work with multiple font appearances.

oh dear. its anti-aliasing then. cry!!!!

Linux by default also has wider and bolder fonts. This is a problem when coding fixed width layouts because of the text width too.

Its ok now anyway. I just adjusted the widths of the layout and its sorted. Personally I prefer the way a PC displays text. Easier to read in my opinion.

Thanks for the help folks.

I'm just a bit curious, what font were you using. Some times mac have the same font as windows but they differ in render. Maybe use a universal-friendly font or have the font load off your site.

It's not the font, it's the anti-aliasing used when rendering the font. You could use the exact same font, but the different rendering would mean they look different.

Well what if we have the font load off our server. Since it already has a render of how the font should look, can we not do that.

From what I know, @font-face makes the client computer load an external font file which the browser use to render your page. But if I am correct, at the moment, such feature is only available on IE

How did you do that exactly? I tried everything, even sifr (but that gave much more problems). I have _exactly_ the same problem. Please reply, i'm getting desperate