Default browser font on Linux distros?

[nordloewelabs]

most of the distros seem to use the same font on their browsers, be it Firefox, be it Seamonkey, be it Opera. i checked those browsers' OPTIONS dialog box and, from what i could tell, the font used is "Sans Serif". however, when i copy the TTF file to Windows, the font does not look the same. maybe i'm not copying the right font.... :-s

any suggestions?

 

[postmortemIA]

Actual Sans Serif is usually deja vu sans or bitstream vera sans

 

[nordloewelabs]

that's odd. i've tried both of them and they dont look the same on Windows. is there any particular characteristic of Linux that could make the font appear different on the two OSs?

 

[Nothinman]

The fact that the font rendering systems are completely different?

 

[nordloewelabs]

other fonts look the same....

 

[Nothinman]

I've always been able to tell the difference between the two and just accepted that I don't like how Windows renders fonts., having said that it could be the DPI setting.