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by veemjeem 5108 days ago
Would the average person who prefers "professional" screenshots be able to tell the difference between Aktiv Grotesk and Lucida Grande? You have a sharp eye, but I would think 99.9% of the population looking at these screenshots would not complain about Aktiv Grotesk.
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Actually, from looking at the generated image, I was only able to tell that the font looked vaguely "wrong". I found out it was specifically Aktiv Grotesk only by going through many steps on Identifont: http://www.identifont.com/identify?22+%20+9J+39+1R6+26RB+4PW....

But still, I agree that most people would probably not notice the font being off at all. And the font smoothing difference jumps out at me the most; if the use of Aktiv Grotesk was the only difference from real Safari, I might not have noticed anything.