Re: Calling all firefox users. Do your fonts look faint and washed out?

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:36:12 +0000, Mike Barnard
wrote:

>When I look at my site in FF the text appears ... thin. Yet in IE it's
>much heavier and more readable.

Finally got a comparison screencap.

http://www.thermachek.com/test/index.html

Looking closer it looks as though the IE text is antialiased, but the
FF one isn't. Is there an option in FF to do this? I can't see one,
but we all know I sometimes miss the obvious!

Re: Calling all firefox users. Do your fonts look faint and washedout?

Mike Barnard wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:36:12 +0000, Mike Barnard
> wrote:
>
>> When I look at my site in FF the text appears ... thin. Yet in IE it's
>> much heavier and more readable.
>
> Finally got a comparison screencap.
>
> http://www.thermachek.com/test/index.html
>
> Looking closer it looks as though the IE text is antialiased, but the
> FF one isn't. Is there an option in FF to do this? I can't see one,
> but we all know I sometimes miss the obvious!
>

Perhaps ...

Tools - Options - Content - Fonts & Colors - Advanced. Check to see if
you have unchecked "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my
selections above".

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Re: Calling all firefox users. Do your fonts look faint and washed out?

On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:31:44 -0400, Ed Mullen wrote:

>Mike Barnard wrote:
>> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:36:12 +0000, Mike Barnard
>> wrote:
>>
>>> When I look at my site in FF the text appears ... thin. Yet in IE it's
>>> much heavier and more readable.
>>
>> Finally got a comparison screencap.
>>
>> http://www.thermachek.com/test/index.html
>>
>> Looking closer it looks as though the IE text is antialiased, but the
>> FF one isn't. Is there an option in FF to do this? I can't see one,
>> but we all know I sometimes miss the obvious!
>>
>
>Perhaps ...
>
>Tools - Options - Content - Fonts & Colors - Advanced. Check to see if
>you have unchecked "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my
>selections above".

No, that is checked. The fonts are identical looking at the pixel
structure of the letters, it's just antialiasing I'm sure. Oh well,
no setting that I can see. In face I have just gone through the
settings in IE and can see nothing there. Just another browser
difference I suppose.