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Yet another reason I block everyone's webfonts. (Designers on OS X: ClearType does not render fonts the same way.)

• rcgs 14y ago
  Most webfonts look OK on windows vista and up.
• sil3ntmac 14y ago
  That seems excessive, perhaps just upgrade to a more progressive font-smoothing algorithm? ClearType is built for lo-res displays (it snaps pixels to a grid rather than smoothing), so as you'd expect it looks like utter crap on a nice monitor. I have heard good things about gditray: http://www.cobyx.com/software/gdi/ http://www.cobyx.com/software/gdi/
  • cheald 14y ago
    Have to design for the lowest common denominator. Just because you and I can install gditray or whatnot doesn't mean that most people will. Edit: The link even says that it doesn't work with Chrome, so it's still a non-starter.
    • ivank 14y ago
      Chrome should have DirectWrite rendering soon: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/chromium-dev/5BQYLaalCoY https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups=#...
• stevestreza 14y ago
  Is there an easy way to detect when type is rendered with ClearText?
  • deleted 14y ago
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  • ehsanu1 14y ago
    This article explains and provides an implementation to do that: http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2009/11/29/how-to-detect-font-smoothing-using-javascript/ http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2009/11/29/how-to-detect-fo...