It's more than that. Designers tend to use Macs. OS X's Quartz font engine renders text more heavily (and wider) than Windows' or Linux's does, and Chrome on W

It's more than that. Designers tend to use Macs. OS X's Quartz font engine renders text more heavily (and wider) than Windows' or Linux's does, and Chrome on Windows in particular suffers because it uses GDI for font rendering rather than DirectWrite like IE and Firefox do. Chrome on Windows also happens to be the single largest web browser demographic, making it particularly hilarious that designers on their Macs end up designing these websites with utterly illegible fonts. Arial and Helvetica may not be cool, but they're readable. Here's Chrome 25 on Windows: http://cl.ly/image/000u2i2C0S3Q http://cl.ly/image/000u2i2C0S3Q And here's Chrome 24 on OS X: http://cl.ly/image/0t132S3b3k0d/o http://cl.ly/image/0t132S3b3k0d/o