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This is how that page looks like on my computer http://i.imgur.com/x8kqM.png http://i.imgur.com/x8kqM.png Windows 7, Chrome 24.0.1312.2 dev-m

jamesaguilar 14y ago
Yep, seems to be having trouble on Chrome stable too.
xentronium 14y ago
Yet another case of chrome's bad rendering. The font used: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/IM+Fell+English http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/IM+Fell+English Why would anyone try and use bad typewriter font imitation on a website is beyond me.
- ojiikun 14y ago
  It's not just Chrome. I get just as awful a rendering on Firefox ESR 10.0.5 on Win7-64.
- jamesaguilar 14y ago
  Erm. It seems like the problem is not with Chrome's rendering but with the site owner's font selection.
- petercooper 14y ago
  More like Windows' bad rendering. It looks fine in my Chrome on OS X. A bit of a lame font but readable and not all flaky like the Windows screenshot linked by the original commenter.
  - vacri 14y ago
    Looks fine in my win7/FF16 arrangement
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  - joshuacc 14y ago
    Chrome renders fonts differently than other browsers in Windows 7. Possibly for speed reasons? Both the latest FF and IE9 look decent.
    - pcwalton 14y ago
      It's more historical at this point. Chrome doesn't use DirectWrite because it uses Skia on Windows. At the time, the choice was between GDI+ and Skia, and Skia was much faster. But DirectWrite on Vista and 7 is extremely fast (it's GPU-accelerated, unlike the Skia backend Chrome uses).
bilalq 14y ago
It's his font choice. I don't agree with it either, but at least it's intentional. Edit: Perhaps not. The font looks better on the link provided in the sibling comment.
nnq 14y ago
for the article's author: try this before choosing a font, PLEASE: https://browserlab.adobe.com/ https://browserlab.adobe.com/ (yeah, it needs an adobe account that you can make in 2min, with no cc, but it's free if you don't exceed a daily usage quota) ...not everybody is using safari on a mac (and I eagerly await the days when people will start using fonts that are only readable on safari on a mac with retina display...)
- kisom 14y ago
  I actually checked it in Xombrero on OpenBSD with no issue. To be honest, I hadn't expected anyone to read the article outside of people in the IRC channel, where practically no one is running Windows.

jamesaguilar 14y ago

Yep, seems to be having trouble on Chrome stable too.

xentronium 14y ago

Yet another case of chrome's bad rendering. The font used: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/IM+Fell+English http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/IM+Fell+English Why would anyone try and use bad typewriter font imitation on a website is beyond me.

ojiikun 14y ago
It's not just Chrome. I get just as awful a rendering on Firefox ESR 10.0.5 on Win7-64.
jamesaguilar 14y ago
Erm. It seems like the problem is not with Chrome's rendering but with the site owner's font selection.
petercooper 14y ago
More like Windows' bad rendering. It looks fine in my Chrome on OS X. A bit of a lame font but readable and not all flaky like the Windows screenshot linked by the original commenter.
- vacri 14y ago
  Looks fine in my win7/FF16 arrangement
- deleted 14y ago
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- joshuacc 14y ago
  Chrome renders fonts differently than other browsers in Windows 7. Possibly for speed reasons? Both the latest FF and IE9 look decent.
  - pcwalton 14y ago
    It's more historical at this point. Chrome doesn't use DirectWrite because it uses Skia on Windows. At the time, the choice was between GDI+ and Skia, and Skia was much faster. But DirectWrite on Vista and 7 is extremely fast (it's GPU-accelerated, unlike the Skia backend Chrome uses).

bilalq 14y ago

It's his font choice. I don't agree with it either, but at least it's intentional. Edit: Perhaps not. The font looks better on the link provided in the sibling comment.

nnq 14y ago

for the article's author: try this before choosing a font, PLEASE: https://browserlab.adobe.com/ https://browserlab.adobe.com/ (yeah, it needs an adobe account that you can make in 2min, with no cc, but it's free if you don't exceed a daily usage quota) ...not everybody is using safari on a mac (and I eagerly await the days when people will start using fonts that are only readable on safari on a mac with retina display...)

kisom 14y ago
I actually checked it in Xombrero on OpenBSD with no issue. To be honest, I hadn't expected anyone to read the article outside of people in the IRC channel, where practically no one is running Windows.