Fonts in Pages

I am trying to make the transition from Word to Pages, but one thing that is bothering me is the way fonts look. In Word, fonts look more crisp and sharp. Even more bold. In Pages, the same fonts look washed out and blurry. I thought maybe this was a problem with my PowerBook, but it also looks this way on my wife's MacBook. I am pretty sure they both use Quartz for font rendering, so I am a little stumped at why this is.
Does anyone have any idea? I know this might sound trivial, but I spend all days looking at text and readability is a huge deal breaker for me.

I agree that the Pages rendering of the font is too grey, but I also believe the Word rendering is too bold. In fact it can make it hard to tell bold from plain text.
Microsoft has no compunction in totally distorting the size and true shape of characters to get what many users see as clearer text.
I prefer more accurate rendering, in other words WYSIWYG.
If you really want the font to look larger, make it larger. If you want it bolder, make it bold. Don't confuse the issue to the point you can't tell what's what.
Apple on the other hand needs to address the greyness of its text, that is a problem.

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