Text looks liek it is swollen

[araah]

Hi guys, wanted to know if i can somehow configure my mac to stop it from making text look 'swollen', as it is hard for me to design websites when i cant get a true image of what it would look like on most computers (pc's). It seems like it happens on my freinds 15" mac too. I have the lastest 13" model.
I had added a screenshot

Thank You

 

[charlieegan3]

could you zoom in a bit? can't really see what you mean.

 

[Taylor-C]

Text looks fine to me...

 

[Urban Spaceman]

I think that's just how OS X renders fonts.

P.S. Stop browsing eztv. Pirating TV shows is naughty.

P.P.S. Wouldn't this be better in the Web Design and Development forum?

 

[StevenB14]

PC's and Mac's render text differently do they not? That would explain the difference in look.

The text in the picture looks fine to me. Looks exactly like my MacBook.

 

[splitpea]

That's just normal boldface text. Check your HTML and CSS.

 

[CUsurfer]

It's called font smoothing and it's just the way OSX renders fonts. Coming from a PC, I absolutely hate it, but the good news is that you get used to it. I, for the life of me, cannot see why they chose this route over the way Windows/Linux does it. Makes text on all non-retina Macs look blurry when compared to a PC counterpart, although it's a "truer" representation of the font style. It's becoming moot, however, as retina displays remedy the issue.

 

[TickleMeElmo]

Go to System Preferences > General > Uncheck "Use LCD font smoothing when available"

 

[Jason S.]

If you are designing websites, I recommend you install a (legal) copy of Windows on a partition of the hard drive via Bootcamp, or with a virtual machine like VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop.

You should be testing your sites in different versions of Internet Explorer anyway.