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The font on that site is what really sucks... :-)
by cmaxwe 13y ago
The font on that site is what really sucks... :-)
- abjorn 13y agoI'm glad I wasn't the only one that noticed the terrible typography.
- JesseObrien 13y agoI had to go in an remove the custom font CSS in chrome to get through that article. That font is absolutely terrible!
- dangrossman 13y agoThere must be a reason the Chromium/Chrome team decides to displays custom fonts like that on Windows. They almost universally look terrible, or at least worse than every other browser and every other platform. No other browser renders them so thin that the lines of the glyphs become disconnected. I opened a bug report about font rendering and text color issues in 2011. Not only is narrow text rendered oddly as you can see, but if you give it any color other than black, the rendered color doesn't match the color you specify in CSS. It can be way off, like blues rendering as purple. Last I checked, the bug was still open with no work done on it.
- jahewson 13y agoChrome still uses the old Win32 API (GDI) to display fonts, whereas IE and FF are now using DirectWrite.
- leephillips 13y agoIt's been a problem since Chrome's early days, on all platforms: http://lee-phillips.org/google-chromeBadKerning/ http://lee-phillips.org/google-chromeBadKerning/
- rallison 13y agoYup. It renders improperly on Chrome and Firefox, but properly on IE (at least, on IE10).