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Not to be mean but the site's fonts look absolutely horrible on Chrome 20 in Windows 7. The top ones look messy and thick and the bottom one looks much too thin
by simonsarris 14y ago
Not to be mean but the site's fonts look absolutely horrible on Chrome 20 in Windows 7. The top ones look messy and thick and the bottom one looks much too thin:
http://i.imgur.com/KUVwh.png http://i.imgur.com/KUVwh.png
- tkazec 14y agoPresumably Windows' fault, since it has awful font rendering systemwide. Looks fine in Chrome 20 on Lion.
- there 14y agoLooks ugly in Firefox on OS X, but maybe it's just a bad choice of font. http://i.imgur.com/ze1iQ.png http://i.imgur.com/ze1iQ.png
- davidjohnstone 14y agoWindows has a couple of different font rendering systems. Chrome uses GDI, IE9 uses DirectWrite, and Firefox can use either. DirectWrite is a lot smoother, and that's most of the reason why I prefer Firefox in Windows. The fonts on this site look worst in Win/FF. They're not great in Win/Chrome, but at least they look well matched. It looks good in OSX/Chrome. Probably because that's what it was developed in. Protip: different browsers render fonts differently. Test your site before you release it into the wild.
- kcbanner 14y agoYep, looks like crap for me too. Windows, Chrome 20.
- muraiki 14y agoThe fonts are horrible in Firefox 12 on Windows XP, too.
- muraiki 14y agoI don't know much about CSS, but I think what happened is that their source for the fonts have taken the files down. For instance, one of the referenced fonts is http://dshap.com/fonts/Gotham-Book.otf http://dshap.com/fonts/Gotham-Book.otf which now yields a 404.
- aik 14y agoThe fonts look right for me (not like the other pics here) but I'm on Chrome 18 in Win7. Nice looking site.
- angry-hacker 14y agoThe fonts look horrible on my Windows 7 64, on 32bit version it looks fine. Also on Ubuntu...