<p>I love the way Mac OS <em>beautifully</em> renders fonts (not just browsers). I was wondering if we could somehow get the same rendering in browsers running on Windows?</p>

<p>Someone recommended sIFR but I guess that's useful when I need to use non-standard fonts?</p>

[{'answer_id': 58400, 'author': 'Brad Wilson', 'author_id': 1554, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1554', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Not sure if this is a setup, but of course, Safari on Windows renders using the OS X rendering algorithm.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 58421, 'author': 'tsimon', 'author_id': 1685, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1685', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Brad is right: use Safari if you want the Mac font rendering algorithm.</p>\n\n<p>Jeff and Joel have both blogged about this before (not surprisingly, around the time that Safari was released for Windows), if you would like more details:</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000885.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000885.html</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 58432, 'author': 'Matt Sheppard', 'author_id': 797, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/797', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>I'm assuming you would like to be ablt to use if globally, or at least in IE/Firefox, not just be installing Safari as other have suggested.</p>\n\n<p>Back in the days wen Mac OS X was still in development, there was a plan to release the Cocoa framework for windows, to allow applications written to it to run natively on Windows with a recompile. I suspect that set of Cocoa windows libraries (Yellow Box wasn't it?) would have given you Mac OS X style font rendering but I don't think it was ever released (though you may be able to get very old beta versions of it from somewhere, and I have a feeling some of it was somehow part of WebObjects or something like that).</p>\n\n<p>I suspect the windows version of Safari is using an internal version of the Cocoa libraries for Windows, whcih is why it has Mac OS X font rendering (though I believe recent nightly builds at least have the option to use Windows' native font rendering for those who were complaining about it looking out of place).</p>\n\n<p>Anyway, long store short, unless you're going to write your own font renderer, I don't think there's any easy way to do it (other than using Safari)</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 60517, 'author': 'Sören Kuklau', 'author_id': 1600, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1600', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': "<blockquote>\n  <p>Someone recommended sIFR but I guess that's useful when I need to use non-standard fonts?</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>sIFR will not give you the intended effect. Like Windows's ClearType, Flash's anti-aliasing (which sIFR uses) optimizes towards the pixel grid, not towards accurate representation of the typeface.</p>\n\n<p>You may be able to use Safari's bundled CoreGraphics library to do your font rendering, but you'd likely break Apple's license agreements (especially once you try to ship your app…).</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 60545, 'author': 'Factor Mystic', 'author_id': 1569, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1569', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Check out <strong>GDI++/FreeType</strong> (<a href="http://free.flop.jp/gdi++/" rel="noreferrer">link</a>, <a href="http://offset.skew.org/wiki/User:Mjb/GDI%2B%2B" rel="noreferrer">link</a>). It\'s a highly configurable font-rendering replacement for Windows. With some configuration of hinting, anti-aliasing, etc, you should be able to approximate OSX style font rendering fairly close.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 2573130, 'author': 'William', 'author_id': 213197, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/213197', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I\'m writing a Java application doing some interesting things with fonts and working with some graphic designers, and they want the same kind of font rendering you\'re talking about.  I was able to get pretty close by turning on fractional metrics aka sub-pixel glyph placement accuracy, and anti-aliasing, which are the key differences between Mac and Windows font rendering.  Looks pretty good for larger TrueType fonts.</p>\n\n<p>Here\'s the Java code I used. It\'s all done with their native font rendering engine (which I believe may be FreeType, not sure exactly).</p>\n\n<pre><code>g.setFont(new Font("Century Schoolbook", Font.PLAIN, 36));\ng.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_FRACTIONALMETRICS,\n                   RenderingHints.VALUE_FRACTIONALMETRICS_ON);\ng.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_TEXT_ANTIALIASING,\n                   RenderingHints.VALUE_TEXT_ANTIALIAS_ON);\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Now if only I could figure out how to make OpenType CFF fonts work.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 2774050, 'author': 'e100', 'author_id': 84596, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/84596', 'pm_score': -1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You could wait until IE9, which apparently has much better text rendering, using DirectX: <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/11/18/an-early-look-at-ie9-for-developers.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2009/11/18/an-early-look-at-ie9-for-developers.aspx</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 5506075, 'author': 'Tomas Andrle', 'author_id': 35440, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/35440', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Microsoft Powertoy <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/ClearTypePowerToy.mspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Cleartype Tuner</a> lets you tweak the way Cleartype works. It might help a little bit. <s>Not sure it works on anything newer than Windows XP though.</s></p>\n\n<p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/vUQRr.png" alt="Cleartype Tuner"></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 5922609, 'author': 'Realcool', 'author_id': 743233, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/743233', 'pm_score': -1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>If you want mac osx rendering in firefox, you must use extension Anti-Aliasing Tuner:</p>\n\n<p><a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/anti-aliasing-tuner/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/anti-aliasing-tuner/</a></p>\n\n<p>Just set anti-aliasing mode as Default and rendering mode as Outline for small and large fonts and you\'re done.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 12379996, 'author': 'zho', 'author_id': 378731, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/378731', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>use mactype</p>\n<p><a href="https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype</a></p>\n<p>\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200b\u200d\u200c\u200c\u200c\u200c\u200c\u200c\u200c\u200c\u200c</p>\n'}]
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