I was in dire need of a change regarding physical appearance for my Internet browsing (the only thing I use my computer for, aside from typing papers, editing photos and video chatting) so I looked up ways to change my browser’s appearance into a MAC-like style… and well, I was successful and want to share how with you!
1. First things first. You need to download Safari, which is the MAC OS default Internet browser (developed by Apple Inc.), but has a PC version for the same features and price (FREE!). This has a really flexible “Top Sites” main screen that many people rave about. This screen appears when you hit Ctrl + T to get to a new tab, or whenever you start up the browser.
2. After you have gotten Safari on your desktop, go to this webpage and click download on the “OS X Font set” link and hit save. Once it pops into your download folder, right click and hit “Open Containing Folder…”. Once the ZIP file is highlighted, right click and hit “Extract all…”.
3. After each separate font is extracted in the folder, go to your “Computer” from the Start menu and search “Fonts” in the search bar. Once you find the file labeled “Fonts” (which should include every basic font that Windows automatically installed at creation / any fonts you have previously installed). Drag the font titled “Lucinda Grande” into the “Fonts” folder - this will install the font and it will be ready for input into your browser. (If you’d like to use the others seen in the pack preview, go ahead, but the default font is Lucinda Grande).
4. Open Safari and click on the Settings button in the far right corner, which has the typical settings star icon. Hit “Preferences…” and under “Appearance” switch your “Standard Font” and “Fixed-Width Font” to “Lucinda Grande”, with the size of 14. Switch “Font Smoothing:” to “Strong”. These preferences will look different on all screen resolutions, so play around with this to your liking. The font alone was extracted from a MAC and will look similar no matter what smoothing - this just gives it its infamous MAC clarity. (Also note that this will not work as well in other Internet browsers, such as Firefox or I.E., but will look semi-MAC-like).
And BA-BANG! You’re finished! If installed correctly, a Tumblr post will look like this…
And when finished, it should look something like this on your web page…
Nice, smoothed font. Please remember this is not supposed to look IDENTICAL to an Apple product or MAC font, this is just to give the general feel. Websites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and most every other site/article will appear with the same, sleek font. Enjoy!
In comparison, here is Apple’s webpage with their default font style in a unaltered Firefox browser:
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