Browser Font Rendering Inconsistencies
This is a well known Mac thing, and its one of the top 5 reasons why I moved away from OSX and refuse to support Apple users.<p>Safari enforces the OSX &quot;thick antialiasing&quot;, causing really thick fonts. This also causes really thick fonts, unreasonably so, in normal non-web apps.<p>The reverse, unfortunately, is true: a lot of web developers worship at the altar of Apple, and have screwed up perfectly good websites by making their fonts too thin: on <i>every other OS, with every other browser</i> thin fonts <i>break</i>.<p>If you are a web developer, for the love of all that is holy, test your website on a normal Windows machine, with a normal 100% DPI conventional monitor, in both Chrome and Firefox. If it misrenders, this is on <i>you</i>, and you will look positively incompetent to the 95% of users visiting your website.<p>Apple users are a vocal minority, they do not represent the silent majority who will easily click away from your website because its unreadable.<p>The fix on OSX, if you&#x27;re still willing to use that, is `defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 1`, and if you have a non-Retina display, combined with `defaults write -g CGFontRenderingFontSmoothingDisabled -bool NO` to turn sub-pixel font rendering back on.<p>Defaults are 2 and YES, respectively. AppleFontSmoothing accepts values 0 through 3. 0 is off, 1 is light, 2 is medium, 3 is french roast columbian bold.