: Different font thickness between InDesign and Word I'm currently work on text, which intented to be read on screen. For that reason, body text should be quite large, 15-16 points. I use both

@LarsenBagley460

It's possible that Word is making some kind of correction to help you see what you're doing more clearly with smaller fonts. Try printing this or exporting to PDF and see if the problem is still there.

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@Si6392903

There is one diference between a print project and an electronic project.

A printed project is delivered as a finished product. The decisions on what paper, how the colors are delivered, the final coatings... all are included there.

An electronic project is not a finished one. They are the "instructions", the blueprints, the recipy on how to re-create it on screen. Yes, you have the information there, but each program has its own "flavour".

So every program wil render your file diferently, on a diferent operating system, diferent program, same program but diferent version or even the same program, same version but with specific configuration by the user.

Not even a PDF will look the same. Some will use Adobe Reader, some will see it on the web browser with some library, some will see it on a phone, etc.

You need to understand that in order to live a less stressed life making electronic documents. n_n

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@Hamaas979

InDesign is professional page layout software made by Adobe. Word is developed by Microsoft, and Libre Office is Open Source software is developed by the Document Foundation, and they are word processors, not layout software.

It's really a bit too much to expect software built by completely different companies to render fonts on screen exactly the same, even more so when comparing software that serves completely different purposes.

What you could try, which might help a bit, is to export PDFs from each of these applications and compare those, rather than taking screen shots. I suspect there will be little difference between them if they are all in the same format, and viewed using the same software, such as Adobe Reader.

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@Sims5801359

Different software will render the same fonts differently and you can probably expect to get the best rendering with InDesign as it is a professional design tool. I don't think there's anything to fix here, this is how each software will display font files.

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