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Why is it that my website appears different on Mac and Windows? Words on my website when viewed on Mac are more clear, while on Windows they aren’t very legible. The font I am using is Georgia sans-serif.
If its some rendering technique difference, can anybody suggest some font which looks same on both.
Regards
What fonts are you using as fall-back, in case the font isn’t on the client? What size are you setting them, using which unit of measurement (px/em/%, etc)? Isn’t Georgia a serif font?
Screen shot and CSS examples would be useful to know for sure, but the in their absence, one possible cause which comes to mind is the OS font-smoothing.
Mac OS has great font anti-aliasing turned on by default, whereas Windows XP users have go into their display settings to enable it (many don’t, through lack of knowledge). Even then, XP users have 2 choices: plain “font smoothing” (poor), or “ClearType” (awesome).