The pairing of Lucida Console
(Windows) and Lucida Sans Typewriter or Monaco (Mac) may also be suitable for monospace
work, if you??™re looking for a less ???computery??? feel.
Few other fonts are worth a mention, barring perhaps Comic Sans MS, which is inexplicably
popular with novice web designers. To give the font its due, it is readable, but its quirky
and unprofessional nature makes it unsuitable for most purposes (even comic artists
eschew it in favor of personalized fonts).
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The following image shows several of the fonts mentioned in this section, again with Mac
versions on the left and Windows versions on the right.
Mac vs. Windows: Anti-aliasing
When choosing fonts, it??™s worth noting that how they look differs on Mac and Windows. By
default, Macs anti-alias onscreen text, which affects spacing??”in fact, various anti-aliasing
algorithms can make text look slightly different in each browser. On Windows, aliased text
has historically made for jagged edges, but Internet Explorer 7 smoothes type via the fontsmoothing
technology ClearType, introduced in Windows XP (disabled by default in XP, but
enabled in Vista system-wide).
For body copy, font-smoothing (or not) isn??™t a major problem??”although some prefer
aliased text and some prefer anti-aliased, both are fine, as long as the font size is large
enough. However, when it comes to rendering large text??”such as for headings??”aliased
text is significantly less visually pleasing.
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