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Once again, if you decide to use embedded fonts on your website, please always give it a look on Windows first. Font rendering of embedded fonts on Windows can be really terrible, as it is the case of this website.

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Sorry, It looked pretty good on my windows machine - though totally broken on IE.

I'm not a coder or designer, used Themeforrest and a lot of sweat to get the site working. What are your suggestions for fixing the fonts? (dumbed down for a mech. engineer)

Not sure what you are referring to... Try Chrome on Windows and get the Extension called "Change Font Family Style".

I use Lucida Grande for all websites. You are in control my friend.

Ok, this is a screenshot of Chrome 12 on Windows 7:

http://sqliteinspector.com/hackerfair/win.png

And, for comparison, this is a screenshot of Safari 5.0.5 on Snow Leopard:

http://sqliteinspector.com/hackerfair/mac.png

You can clearly see what I was talking about.

Using Chrome 12 on Windows and it looks exactly like the Mac screenshot for me.

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