On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 8:23 PM, Philippe Wittenbergh <[email protected]> wrote:

> You're comparing apples and oranges. Windows (and XP especially) and Linux, 
> or OS X. What you have to compare is font-rendering on the same platform for 
> embedded vs native (installed) fonts.

Few web designers have issues with Windows' font rendering of local
fonts. It is only with embedded fonts that problems arise.

> The font used by David Laakso looks pretty decent on XP (it did so on my side 
> when we were working on that site), the other one is indeed a real deal 
> breaker - that confirms what I heard about those Google hosted fonts.

Sure, on Windows, some embedded fonts render better than others.
However, the problems are not due to poor quality of the fonts, but
with the way Windows and IE handle them. That is probably why the
issues don't occur in IE9 and FF beta 4 (according to
http://www.thebrightlines.com/2010/03/18/font-rendering-in-ie9/ ).

~Chetan
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