I'm going to blatantly ignore the content of your post and make a suggestion: Have you tried using font-smoothing? -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-s

I'm going to blatantly ignore the content of your post and make a suggestion: Have you tried using font-smoothing? -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; font-smoothing: antialiased; I find it helps, though you may want to darken the text a bit afterwards (or increase the weight).