Font too bold on a mac?
Ok this seems to be a very rare problem, when I ran into this problem nobody on the entire internet seemed to know… Any advice I found was to change the colors I was using….
The problem occurs when you put a light colored font over a dark background (the issue doesn’t seem to affect all fonts), the anti aliasing seems to go into overdrive and makes the font much bolder than it should be. OSX uses the quartz system to render the text which is optimized for dark text on a light background, but when we do the opposite it goes crazy and the font goes super bold.
Example: Text with issue on the left, the text you really want on the right.
Well I have a present for all you, just cause I’m a nice guy. Want it to look like the text on the right?
Apply “opacity:0.99;” to the CSS of all affected text, we’ve only dropped the opacity by 1% but suddenly we have the right weighting :)
Cya ;)
Great trick! I was totally stressing about a comp I had to rework in CSS not matching up on account of the fonts being too bold.
Your a godsend, thank you! very hard to find any information about this issue anywhere.
Client was wondering why it was ultra bold (And its indeed light text on a dark background) and the fix you mentioned worked a treat.
Really, really weird! but it works! thanks 4 the tip =)
You are a champ… I’ve been looking all over for a solution to this rendering is. Excellent :-)
Many thanks
working !
very hard indeed to find infos on this pb
did the trick for me too, thanks mate!