Font questions IE vs. FF

  • I’m currently using the standard WordPress font, but I’ve noticed that it looks better in IE than in Firefox (probably the only thing that looks better). So I was wondering if anyone had font suggestions that look good across all browsers?

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  • Verdana is an option to try.

    georgia if classic is what u like. the point lies in what matters to you… its ur blog if it looks nice to u that should be good enough!

    For some reason, I cannot get Tahoma to work on mine. =(

    Sushubh – Georgia is the WP standard, along with Lucida. And, assuming both browsers actually identify the fonts, they should look exactly the same (they do in mine).
    I wonder what could be causing the two browsers to display the same font in different ways – you’re not just talking about size, are you?

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Oisin – no not really size, if i look at it at home win98 ff vs. ie they look the same, but if i look at it at work winxp, the font looks bolder, smoother, nicer just different.

    Yeah, that’d be my guess, dented21 — what Oisin refers to.

    https://www.dougkinzinger.com/cleartweak.exe comes handy

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    Oisin-Your sample right on.

    Thread Starter Anonymous

    So my work xp box has AA on fonts and my home 98 doesn’t?
    But from my home box i can still see tons of sites with better text fonts.
    So I just need to find a friendlier font, any suggestions?
    I hate how the letters are so close together that everytime I type click it looks like d*ck.
    Check it out if your want, if your box is old enuff, no aa, whatever…
    Son of Tom and Geri
    And thanks for the help.

    Why would my tahoma not be showing? It keeps making it all verdana.

    So my work xp box has AA on fonts and my home 98 doesn’t?

    Not quite, but in Windows XP, there are two different kinds of anti-aliasing that you can choose between, Standard and ClearType. The one on the left (in the image) is Standard, on the right is ClearType.
    You can try changing your Windows anti-aliasing (under Screen properties -> Appearance -> Effects [or something like that, I’m translating the names from the Danish version]) and see if that helps.
    But this change should affect all of Windows, not just certain browsers… You say it’s in FireFox that it looks like the right side, and in IE like the left side? Or the other way around?
    Just checked your site – they look exactly the same in my IE and FireFox, both with Standard anti-aliasing and with ClearType anti-aliasing (I’m on XP too). I do wonder what could cause the two browsers to display them differently…

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