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

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ivank|13 years ago

Yet another reason I block everyone's webfonts.

(Designers on OS X: ClearType does not render fonts the same way.)

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/

stevestreza|13 years ago

Is there an easy way to detect when type is rendered with ClearText?

rcgs|13 years ago

Most webfonts look OK on windows vista and up.

heyitsnick|13 years 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.

antninja|13 years 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|13 years ago

Yep. Chrome on Windows 7 looks awful.