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TIL Google Chrome doesn't support OpenType.
by hm2k 15y ago
TIL Google Chrome doesn't support OpenType.
- kooshball 15y agoI wonder if this explains the ugly non-aliased text I see so often with chrome.
- masklinn 15y agoI'm pretty sure that's the renderer and has nothing to do with opentype support.
- kooshball 15y agoDo you know if there's a specific reason why the renderer is showing non smooth text?
- rorrr 15y agoChrome does suck at rendering. Not just the fonts. I recently found a bug where Chrome constantly eats 12% of an 8-core CPU because of an animated GIF, some transparency and shadows. The latest IE and FF have no such problems. I'm a Chrome user btw.
- tadfisher 15y agoThe render is OS-dependent. On which operating system do you experience this issue?
- dminor 15y agoCan't speak for the OP but I see it on Windows XP with cleartype turned on when viewing webfonts.
- bdunzer 15y agoRendering of web fonts on Windows XP is one big issue that there are solutions for but it really takes a lot of tweaking. First, it starts with a well designed and created font. Second, hinting can be applied that helps shift around the pixels on the screen to better map the outlines to the pixels on the screen, ClearType does help in some instances but mostly with small text, using tricks like sending WOFF/CFF to turn on GDI grayscale anti-aliasing is another that is employed when a font is a certain size - usually larger sizes. Its one big issue and one that all of us web font service providers are trying to help solve. If we all had the resources we would be sending down one specific version for each browser / OS and screen setting combination. But that is pretty prohibitive. We are starting to see better renders built into the browsers and some tweaks that the folks at Webkit, Mozilla and IE are making.
- tadfisher 15y agoWindows XP's version of ClearType doesn't respect hinting in the Y-direction, which gives you those horrible jaggies on typefaces that aren't designed with this in mind.
- mrlase 15y agoKind of disappointed, really. I wonder if the font rendering really is better in FF? I hardly open it anymore other than to browse sites that I feel to be shady (as I have FF much more hardened than Chrome).
- bzbarsky 15y agoWell, Firefox enables "common" ligatures by default, unlike Chrome. so yes, font rendering does tend to be better in Firefox....
- troymc 15y agoSimilarly, it doesn't seem to work in Safari on my iMac, or in Safari on my iPad 2. (This isn't surprising given the names of the CSS selectors, i.e. -moz-stuff and -ms-stuff but never -webkit-stuff.)