Mac font rendering on Windows [closed]

Question

I love the way Mac OS beautifully renders fonts (not just browsers). I was wondering if we could somehow get the same rendering in browsers running on Windows?

Someone recommended sIFR but I guess that's useful when I need to use non-standard fonts?

Answer 1

Check out GDI++/FreeType (link, link). It's a highly configurable font-rendering replacement for Windows. With some configuration of hinting, anti-aliasing, etc, you should be able to approximate OSX style font rendering fairly close.

Answer 2

use mactype

https://github.com/snowie2000/mactype

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Answer 3

Not sure if this is a setup, but of course, Safari on Windows renders using the OS X rendering algorithm.

Answer 4

Brad is right: use Safari if you want the Mac font rendering algorithm.

Jeff and Joel have both blogged about this before (not surprisingly, around the time that Safari was released for Windows), if you would like more details:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000885.html