Chrome on Windows doesn't use the DirectWrite text rendering engine as opposed to Firefox or IE. See details here: http://eligrey.com/blog/post/better-font-smo

Chrome on Windows doesn't use the DirectWrite text rendering engine as opposed to Firefox or IE. See details here: http://eligrey.com/blog/post/better-font-smoothing-in-google-chrome-on-windows http://eligrey.com/blog/post/better-font-smoothing-in-google... This has been an open issue since 2009. I'm surprised it still hasn't been fixed even though it's a daily nuisance in the world of beautiful web fonts and large type sizes: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25541 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=25541 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=105944 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=105944 EDIT: an official DirectWrite port of Chrome/Win is currently under development: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/browse_thread/thread/e414182da6a50a86?pli=1 https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-dev/...