Mac font is nice. What about Windows or LInux?

[piatti]

What I do like about the Mac OS is that font is rendered smoothly everywhere. Can you do that on Windows or Linux?

 

[GGJstudios]

What I do like about the Mac OS is that font is rendered smoothly everywhere. Can you do that on Windows or Linux?

It depends somewhat on which font.

 

[piatti]

I found the answer to this for Windows at least. http://vladg.com/2009/03/make-windows-fonts-look-as-smooth-as-mac-os-x-fonts/

 

[Krazy Bill]

I find that running Windows through Parallels seems to yield more "mac like" fonts. (vs. Boot Camp). Hand't noticed that before.

 

[jackrv]

The later Windows versions have Cleartype. (I'm not in front of one so I can't give exact examples). Somewhere through control panel in Win you can tweak the Cleartype settings, but I don't think it gives as much anti-aliasing control as Mac OS. You definitely can tweak it though to find a setting that suits you.

Linux, I have no idea. All of the boxes I work on at work are just shells (no GUI).

EDIT: Found this: http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/28790/tweak-cleartype-in-windows-7/

For WinXP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306527