I don’t know about you, but I love the Lucida Grande font from Apple. As far as I have been able to tell it has never been available for windows. Well, today that all ends. Today Apple released Safari for windows. If you install it, it comes with Lucida Grande for Safari. If you navigate to Program Files -> Safari -> Safari.resources there are lucida grande.ttf and lucida grand bold.ttf files, drag to windows font manager in control panel, reload firefox/explorer and enjoy the beautiful fonts!
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Too bad Helvetica wasn’t also shipped with Safari for Windows.
But why do this? So that IE and Firefox can also render text in Lucida Grande, but do an awful job of it?
Ben: I happen to think the font looks great in Firefox. This also makes it available system wide, including things like photoshop and word which might be useful for some people. It appears to my (untrained) eye that safari in windows uses the same font rendering engine as the rest of the applications(firefox, IE, etc) so there is no reason to believe safari would do a better job over those two.
I am loving safari for windows. I was unable to read Pablo’s comments… that color combination is too bright and unreadable, I tried to read but I could only see straight lines and they seemed to move :S I am using an LCD screen
Eduardo: You are very correct sir. How does this look?
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Pablo,
Safari uses different font rendering technology to any Windows application. Firefox also uses something different again, as far as I know.
All MS applications use the same (Windows) font rendering.
Looks the same as Trebuchet MS for Windows. A little lighter, maybe.
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I personally don’t like Lucida Grande, although if you go to the Windows spectrum and look at Segoe UI or Calibri, those are nice looking fonts.
I personally like Lucida Grande, but I also prefer Monaco.