Safari is a browser that implements cutting edge font smoothing techniques. Any page rendered in Safari looks really good and pleasing to the eye compared to other browsers. Now if you are on Mac OS X, it turns out you won’t have any problem with font smoothing on other browsers thanks to the system-wide implementation of the font smoothing technique.

On Windows however, there still is a slight glitch. Of course, we have ClearType here but let’s face it, it’s not as great as the one on OS X. Now before I tell you how to have Safari like font-smoothing on Firefox, IE8 or Opera, I’d like to show you what it really means:

See the difference. Trust me if you really need to experience the web in sophisticated way, you need something better than ClearType. You need GDI++.

GDI++ offers Mac OS X like font rendering on Windows, giving you much cleaner and smooth display of fonts. Above screenshots were taken on Firefox with GDI++ ON and OFF. Download GDI++ from the link given below, unzip the files and simply run gditray.exe. Results will be immediate. The best part is the font smoothing will be system-wide. GDI++ basically overrides Windows’ native ClearType tuning to achieve better results. Once you feel the change, I am sure you’d never want to go back.

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