Fonts appear lighter on Windows browsers than on Mac.

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Fonts appear lighter on Windows browsers than on Mac. #146

Open juliuso opened 5 years ago

juliuso commented 5 years ago

I loaded the site on Windows browsers for the first time, and noticed that fonts appear much lighter than they do on Mac. Screenshots below:

Safari 12 on Mac

Chrome 75 on Windows tufteOnWindowsChrome75

Firefox 68 on Windows tufteOnWindowsFirefox68

mbutterick commented 4 years ago

Not a bug. That’s all due to the differences in font rendering between platforms. On Practical Typography, I serve slightly lighter versions of my fonts to Mac users to adjust for the heavier rendering.

bueltge commented 2 years ago

^ in depends on the note from @mbutterick we should close this issue, it is not a bug, the web-browser, the OS and the results are different.