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Why does the type size appear smaller on a Mac than in Windows on a PC?

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Why does the type size appear smaller on a Mac than in Windows on a PC?

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Unfortunately for all of us well-intentioned web publishers, HTML type appears much larger on Windows than it does on the Mac. Although they both display images at 72 DPI (dots per inch), Windows displays type at 96 dpi, whereas the Mac displays it at 72 dpi. This deceptively small technical difference results in much larger type on Windows.