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I don't know what it is but the font on this site looks really bad in my browser.

by daniellockard 14y ago

ivank 14y ago
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...
antninja 14y ago
TypeKit (I don't know the name of the font). It looks fine on IE9. DRM'ed webfonts look like crap on all other browsers on Windows.
- trafficlight 14y ago
  Yep. Chrome on Windows 7 looks awful.
  - Vivtek 14y ago
    The digits are especially confusing - the 4's render like European 1's.
    - ehamberg 14y ago
      What's the difference between European and non-European 1's?
      - Vivtek 14y ago
        Americans either write a single vertical stroke or an upward hook with a horizontal base line. Europeans (well, Germans and Hungarians to my own knowledge) write just the upward hook - to distinguish this from a 7, they cross the seven. This font rendered fours (Chrome on Win 7) without the horizontal bar, leaving something that looked like a 1, to me.
heyitsnick 14y ago
This is probably the 4th or 5th link this week that has been barely legible (windows 7/chrome). Note to blog authors who want to use custom webfonts: If you are not testing on non-IE windows, you could be alienating a very large percentage of your potential readerbase.

I don't know what it is but the font on this site looks really bad in my browser.

ivank 14y ago

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
  [deleted]
- 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...

antninja 14y ago

TypeKit (I don't know the name of the font). It looks fine on IE9. DRM'ed webfonts look like crap on all other browsers on Windows.

trafficlight 14y ago
Yep. Chrome on Windows 7 looks awful.
- Vivtek 14y ago
  The digits are especially confusing - the 4's render like European 1's.
  - ehamberg 14y ago
    What's the difference between European and non-European 1's?
    - Vivtek 14y ago
      Americans either write a single vertical stroke or an upward hook with a horizontal base line. Europeans (well, Germans and Hungarians to my own knowledge) write just the upward hook - to distinguish this from a 7, they cross the seven. This font rendered fours (Chrome on Win 7) without the horizontal bar, leaving something that looked like a 1, to me.

heyitsnick 14y ago

This is probably the 4th or 5th link this week that has been barely legible (windows 7/chrome). Note to blog authors who want to use custom webfonts: If you are not testing on non-IE windows, you could be alienating a very large percentage of your potential readerbase.