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If you're on Windows, sorry. Both Firefox and IE have terrible font rendering on that OS which basically munges the font. Try Safari (I've heard that's better).

If you're on Windows, sorry. Both Firefox and IE have terrible font rendering on that OS which basically munges the font. Try Safari (I've heard that's better). It would be nice if Typekit did fallback rendering for Windows only which basically just used Times New Roman and Helvetica. I, however, don't want to implement this because I suspect you are one of the first people to visit the site on Windows.

bad_user 17y ago
> I suspect you are one of the first people to visit the site on Windows Do you have some stats to go with that?
- chrislloyd 17y ago
  Ha! Yes: http://twitpic.com/1asem0 http://twitpic.com/1asem0 I've had the luxury of writing in splendid isolation :D The one IE user was me checking it out. About 35 of the Safari visitors were me too!
  - ErrantX 17y ago
    Uh, all of those browsers could be on Windows....
dhotson 17y ago
Oh damn.. so anything using Typekit basically looks awful on Windows? What a shame.. Also, I reckon your site looks fantastic. Just sayin' :-)
jk 17y ago
WinXP and firefox3. The font is Times New Roman and the site is readable (had to increase font size).
- sid0 17y ago
  Firefox 3 doesn't support font-face.
sid0 17y ago
> If you're on Windows, sorry. Both Firefox and IE have terrible font rendering on that OS which basically munges the font I'm not sure what you're talking about -- the only real problem I can see with Firefox on Windows is that the font is far too small for a serif font to be readable on screen. (side note: I universally hate serif fonts on screen, which is why I always force fonts to Calibri. I did disable forcing fonts to check your site out, though, but I'm afraid it hasn't swayed my opinion of serif fonts one bit. I'll continue to force fonts until most web designers switch to sans-serif.)
- chrislloyd 17y ago
  > I'm not sure what you're talking about You are totally right, looks like I was wrong. When I checked it out on a Windows machine it looked like @Devilboy's screenshot and I (wrongly) assumed that is how everything looked. Cleartype mustn't have been enabled.

bad_user 17y ago

> I suspect you are one of the first people to visit the site on Windows Do you have some stats to go with that?

chrislloyd 17y ago
Ha! Yes: http://twitpic.com/1asem0 http://twitpic.com/1asem0 I've had the luxury of writing in splendid isolation :D The one IE user was me checking it out. About 35 of the Safari visitors were me too!
- ErrantX 17y ago
  Uh, all of those browsers could be on Windows....

dhotson 17y ago

Oh damn.. so anything using Typekit basically looks awful on Windows? What a shame.. Also, I reckon your site looks fantastic. Just sayin' :-)

jk 17y ago

WinXP and firefox3. The font is Times New Roman and the site is readable (had to increase font size).

sid0 17y ago
Firefox 3 doesn't support font-face.

sid0 17y ago

> If you're on Windows, sorry. Both Firefox and IE have terrible font rendering on that OS which basically munges the font I'm not sure what you're talking about -- the only real problem I can see with Firefox on Windows is that the font is far too small for a serif font to be readable on screen. (side note: I universally hate serif fonts on screen, which is why I always force fonts to Calibri. I did disable forcing fonts to check your site out, though, but I'm afraid it hasn't swayed my opinion of serif fonts one bit. I'll continue to force fonts until most web designers switch to sans-serif.)

chrislloyd 17y ago
> I'm not sure what you're talking about You are totally right, looks like I was wrong. When I checked it out on a Windows machine it looked like @Devilboy's screenshot and I (wrongly) assumed that is how everything looked. Cleartype mustn't have been enabled.