Question

The p's and b's in the above image are strange, relative to the other letters. They are more-bold or stretched a bit horizontally. This is viewing wikipedia in firefox on windows 7. Even the text on serverfault appears this way... some letters appear almost bold because they get stretched horizontally a bit.

This is a completely default installation of Windows 7 and Firefox... really don't know what's going on here.

What's going on here and how can I fix it? This is very annoying to me.

Answer 1

The best first solution would be to use the ClearType tuner. It works on all Windows versions including Windows 7 and may address your dilema.

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/tuner/tune.aspx