Comments on: Browser font rendering and antialiasing – Windows vs. Mac

By: ps

ps — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:11:28 +0000

thanks for the info. wow, being on the mac for so long, one just gets to think anti-aliased type is everywhere. now, i know how it is in the real world. hopefully localized cleartype in browsers does become a norm… until then… i wonder if there is a way to test whether cleartype is on or not? for so long i have wanted to use italics in a web page… but, aliased italics are horrible. hmm… more research. cheers!

By: Daemon

Daemon — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:10:23 +0000

Cleartype still does not look good in all parts of Windows operating system. While website font rendering is nice, Cleartype makes rest of the UserInterface pretty ugly. Small fonts in menus, START menu, names under icons/folders …. they all look bad under Cleartype.

Macs were made from step 0 to render fonts in all positions beautifully. PC, sadly, is not.

By: ps

ps — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:43:39 +0000

sometimes the truth sucks. can i shoot the messenger? oh well… back to the drawing board. i *really* wish cleartype was the default. why would it not be?? it’s 2009!

By: Jonathan Schofield

Jonathan Schofield — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:08:33 +0000

Wow, thanks! As a Mac based designer this is really important stuff. You’ve really helped clarify this issue for me.

My head is not ‘in the sand’ on this ;)

Until now, I have been inclined to declare Helvetica ahead of Arial because it is, in theory, a more sensitively designed font but your points above are well made.

I’m going to revert to Arial, Helvetica on the basis of this.

By: nivas.hr blog » Blog Archive » Optimize your logos for screen please

nivas.hr blog » Blog Archive » Optimize your logos for screen please — Mon, 12 May 2008 17:30:26 +0000

[…] as a side note, Current base-font is Helvetica. Can you designers working on Mac please take your head out of the sand and realize that 95% of users are on Windows, and most likely do not see Helvetica properly in […]

By: seven

seven — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:36:56 +0000

Screw this. I am switching to w3m (http://w3m.sourceforge.net/). :)

By: maratz

maratz — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:56:43 +0000

Ha! I wrote about it when IE 7 came out. And then I switched to Mac :p

By: seven

seven — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:15:44 +0000

Chris, I love Helvetica too. Can’t deny it. But my man Daemon has a point. Windows users don’t have that font and making a site which user Helvetica as base font is like building a site for users with 1600+ screen resolution.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 04:42:04 +0000

Seven, you’re right, but i think not only Mac-Users love Helvetica :)

By: seven

seven — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 22:31:23 +0000

I think Mac users have some special romantic relationship with Helvetica font. Not the new users (refugees from xp world), but people who have been using Mac forver.

They write emails in helvetica, they write memos in helvetica, design with helvetica… look man, they want helvetica on their sites. :)

That’s why we pc users have beautiful windings font – and I am all for that we start making sites in it!