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Google Web Fonts or @font-face are great leap towards better web typography but sadly that's not the only piece of puzzle that needs to be solved. Every OS, an
by sushi 16y ago
Google Web Fonts or @font-face are great leap towards better web typography but sadly that's not the only piece of puzzle that needs to be solved.
Every OS, and every browser on that OS renders text differently. Read this for more on that: http://24ways.org/2009/real-fonts-and-rendering http://24ways.org/2009/real-fonts-and-rendering
I recently wrote a silly article, mainly to see how the typography will shape the whole feel of the webpage at http://www.sushaantu.com/moustache.html http://www.sushaantu.com/moustache.html It looks awesome to me on my Ubuntu Chromium 7 but sucks on Firefox 3 of Windows and OSX.
Google Font Directory is indeed a great thing to make web little more beautiful but we need support from OS and browsers as well which are making steady pace.
- ugh 16y agoThat looks great on OS X and Safari but the fake italics are just wrong. Don’t know why you would say that it sucks. – edit: Ah, that font doesn’t have a italic or bold variant, that explains it. Now I don’t know what could possibly be wrong with the rendering in OS X.
- sushi 16y agoI'm glad it doesn't suck on your browser :)
- bradendouglass 16y agoI am rocking Chromium and it seems to render fine on mine as well. I do however, agree that there needs to be some text rendering continuity between browsers. It really is a shame that maybe tops, 5 people are talking in this thread and most of us are seeing different renders
- Sephr 16y agoIn Firefox 4 and IE9, the much smoother Windows DirectWrite API is used. In Firefox 4, you need to toggle a gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled preference in about:config though.