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Mac Font on Windows - Tori-kun - 2012-09-10

Lately I had been fascinated by the very fine and as I find superior font of Macintosh. I wonder if there is an easy solution to get the font-environment of Apple to work flawlessly on my Win 7 notebook. I already googled a bit and found only very complicated ways that did not work out really and messed up my registry kind of Confused

Any advice is greatly appreciated Big Grin Thanks in advance!

Mac Font on Windows - warakawa - 2012-09-10

Tori-kun Wrote:Lately I had been fascinated by the very fine and as I find superior font of Macintosh. I wonder if there is an easy solution to get the font-environment of Apple to work flawlessly on my Win 7 notebook. I already googled a bit and found only very complicated ways that did not work out really and messed up my registry kind of Confused

Any advice is greatly appreciated Big Grin Thanks in advance!
I think the Font in Apple is ugly, but most font in Windows is Apple .ttf anyway.

Mac Font on Windows - Bokusenou - 2012-09-10

Tori-kun Wrote:Lately I had been fascinated by the very fine and as I find superior font of Macintosh. I wonder if there is an easy solution to get the font-environment of Apple to work flawlessly on my Win 7 notebook. I already googled a bit and found only very complicated ways that did not work out really and messed up my registry kind of Confused

Any advice is greatly appreciated Big Grin Thanks in advance!
You mean the font smoothing, or the fonts themselves?

Mac Font on Windows - Tori-kun - 2012-09-10

Thanks for your long post, Hyperborea! It clarified a lot. Well, I really like the way the font looks here (e.g. the dictionary. Both the Japanese and the 'normal' Western font on Mac are just very cool i find): http://is.gd/eH7QhK

I don't know how/if I can tell my Windows to use a different font set..

I discovered GDI++ (http://is.gd/VbrLCl) but do not know how to set it up so that the fonts will look like on mac. I tried to, but I could not see the difference really Confused 機会音痴だもんｗ

Mac Font on Windows - ファブリス - 2012-09-10

In addition to what Hyper said, you could try and find browsers that implement custom font rendering. I'm not sure if there are any but that would cover a lot of reading Smile Perhaps even a custom port of the open source Chromium... just throwing that in the wind maybe someone already came up with that idea.

One pretty involved solution would be the "seamless" mode in VirtualBox, you could use a Linux browser or try to install OS X in a VM. Then you can seamlessly open the browser on top of Windows. On the plus you'll have it sandboxed. I did not spend too much time in Linux Mint yet but what I saw was very nice. Text quality in VIM and Terminal was important for me and the rendering in Linux Mint was definitely better than Windows. It was softer and quite similar to OS X.

Alternatively you could try to install Mountain Lion in VirtualBox. Then use dictionary etc in seamless mode? You can even buy ML if you're that inclined it's only 16 €.

EDIT: Nevermind you seem to be more interested in the fonts than the font rendering. Indeed the Japanese fonts look very nice.

See List of typefaces included with Mac OS X for the name of the Japanese typefaces.

You can probably get ahold of them, however don't expect them to look as good, as Hyperborea explained quite well.

Mac Font on Windows - Bokusenou - 2012-09-10

Tori-kun Wrote:Thanks for your long post, Hyperborea! It clarified a lot. Well, I really like the way the font looks here (e.g. the dictionary. Both the Japanese and the 'normal' Western font on Mac are just very cool i find): http://is.gd/eH7QhK

I don't know how/if I can tell my Windows to use a different font set..

I discovered GDI++ (http://is.gd/VbrLCl) but do not know how to set it up so that the fonts will look like on mac. I tried to, but I could not see the difference really Confused 機会音痴だもんｗ
OK, from Googling I found a site listing the dictionary fonts:

"Dictionary uses Baskerville Regular, Italic and SemiBold for the text; Helvetica Neue Light for some references and Hiragino Mincho Pro W3 for the phonetics"