Different styling for Mac - is it possible?

[Patrick Taylor]

A long shot... and nothing to do with IE5/Mac.

For my headings I'm using 'Lucida Sans Unicode' as the font. This is a Windows font, so I'm also using 'Lucida Grande' - a Mac font. So I have this:

font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif;

The problem is that I need to make the Lucida Grande 'font-weight: bold' so it really does match Lucida Sans Unicode (which has a natural boldish look when unbolded).

Is there a way I can do this: a rule that only Mac - all Mac versions - will pick up?

[Robin_reala]

Oops, misread your post originally.

Not in CSS, no. You might have to pick a different font to match your others better. According to Fontbook my Mac has got Lucida Sans installed though?

[Patrick Taylor]

According to Fontbook my Mac has got Lucida Sans installed.

Thanks for that. I'm mac-challenged though. What is Fontbook? And is it Lucida Sans or Lucida Sans Unicode? I don't have Lucida Sans on my Windows system.

Lucida Sans Unicode and Lucida Grande bold are gorgeous for headings.

[Robin_reala]

Fontbook is the default Mac font management application. I'm running 10.4.5 and apparently in the Lucida family I have:

Lucida Blackletter
Lucida Bright
Lucida Calligaphy
Lucida Fax
Lucida Grande
Lucida Handwriting
Lucida Sans
Lucida Sans Typewriter

Fwiw Lucida Sans apparently comes in Regular, Italic, Demibold Roman, and Demibold Italic flavours. Don't ask me...

[Patrick Taylor]

Thanks again. Lucida Sans Unicode and Lucida Sans appear to be different fonts. It's very frustrating not being able to view one's sites on a Mac (without buying one or knowing someone with one close by).

In the meantime I'm going to have to assume that Lucida Sans Unicode and Lucida Grande are near enough. I have both installed on my Windows system but at some sizes they are different - then that might be only on Windows. Lucida Sans Unicode on Windows and Lucida Grande on a Mac might look the same (as each other) at all sizes.

[HelenDev]

It's very frustrating not being able to view one's sites on a Mac

Try Googling for icapture - really useful site which does exactly that.

hope that name drop is OK with the mods - not my site of course - I just find it really useful for troubleshooting mac display probs

[Patrick Taylor]

HelenDev, I did, and it is! Thanks.

[Jackson Hole]

You might be able to hack the bold in for just mac browsers. It'd involve multiple hacks to get all the mac browsers, and you may not be able to get them all. here's something to get you started finding the right hacks:

[centricle.com...]

[Patrick Taylor]

Thanks for the link.