On Jan 2, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Chetan Crasta wrote: > Phillip are > due to Windows' horrible rendering of @font-face embedded fonts. > Windows XP, Vista and 7 do not correctly apply font smoothing to > embedded fonts. The issue affects all browsers on the windows > platform.
I don't think this is true at all for all fonts and all browsers (otherwise Typekit and similar sites would be out of business before the end of the day...). Depending on the fonts and the user setting on XP in particular - clear type on/off, etc, fonts _can_ look poop on that OS and sometimes on Win 7 / Vista. Much depends on the hinting of the fonts. In general, the fonts I've used did/do look pretty good on all Windows OS The Typekit blog has had some pretty decent articles on the subject, such as this one: http://blog.typekit.com/2010/12/17/type-rendering-review-and-fonts-that-render-well/ But I've heard indeed that the Google hosted fonts look poor on Windows XP (they do look fine on OS X, Linux Ubuntu and Windows 7). Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
