Many web-developers struggle with the quality of chrome’s web font rendering. As web fonts become an industry standard in web-design, it is only a matter of time before chrome improves their webfont rendering. In the meantime, it would be nice to have a fix. You probably keep seeing little CSS tricks floating around out there involving a text-stroke, invisible shadows… even tilting the font 1 degree to force chrome to use anti-aliasing. Some tricks work well, but only on certain sizes. The problem is some of these tricks fail in the next release of Chrome, and/or worse, they don’t degrade well, wreaking havok on your website’s typography.
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A Closer Look At Font Rendering | Smashing Magazine
A Closer Look At Font Rendering | Smashing Magazine.
More about webfonts…
The Web font revolution that started around two years ago has brought up a topic that many of us had merrily ignored for many years: font rendering. The newfound freedom Web fonts are giving us brings along new challenges. Choosing and using a font is not merely a stylistic issue, and it’s worth having a look at how the technology comes into play.
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Fake Bolding of Web Fonts | Divya Manian
Fake Bolding of Web Fonts | Divya Manian.
If you are like me, you would have been (ab)using Google Web Fonts for your custom font needs. In which case, you most certainly would have tripped on this problem: Faux Font bolding.
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