23" Display seems to show bold fonts in Safari and Mail

Hi,
I have just installed my new 23" Apple Cinema display and in some applications some fonts seem extra bold. The unread mail number is bold. The blue headlines at www.theregister.com at extra bold.
Is their something I am missing to fix this? Other than that it is a lovely display.
Best wishes
Michael

I think it's likely that you haven't quite adjusted to the display yet. Depending on what you were previously using it can be quite a difference not only in contrast and brightness but the cinema displays are 100 dpi which is probably not much more than most desktops but it's a much larger scale than a notebook display.
I suppose it could be a glitch,
You might check your System Preferences> Appearance>
and make sure that the font antialiasing at the bottom is 8 (which is the standard setting) I think the OS X default changed to 4 somewhere along the line and that screws up some apps.
Other than that it could be a real glitch in the font caches. You can simply remove caches if they become corrupt and new ones will be created. You caches are located:
/Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/501/
The last directory is the user (501) which is the default setup with one user, you can just trash all users though if you have more.
Other than that the only possibility is that ether your system fonts are corrupt or your extras.rsrc containing the font settings have been altered (both highly unlikely) and require admin privileges.

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