On Jun 2, 2011, at 6:33 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > * Hardie, Chris wrote: >> I have noticed that the quality of the rendering of many of these fonts >> is rather poor on my desktop browser. Different browsers render the font >> differently. We use a particular font family in our print product which >> looks crisp, and would like to use it on our web product for continuity, >> but it ends up looking ragged and weedy. > > This is likely due to the use of different font smoothing, anti-aliasing > settings and usages, I gather, for instance, Cleartype on Windows works > a bit differently depending on whether you use a pre Windows 7 system or > a more recent system. I am unsure about all the details, but I've found > that many web sites using "web fonts" are physically painful to read in > typical settings (in my case, for instance, in Opera on Windows Server > 2008 with Cleartype turned on). This adds to general problems where some > displays make text unreadable depending on Cleartype settings (back when > I used a CRT screen "Cleartype" made everything horribly blurry; with a > TFT now, everything else the same, not using Cleartype is a bad idea.) > > I have yet to see a detailed and non-contradictory analysis of this, for > instance claim that simply turning on Cleartype makes the issue go away, > which does not match my experience, but you may have better luck using > the keywords noted above. It might also be a good idea to add details to > your findings, like, perhaps mentioning which browsers produce which re- > sults and which systems and configurations you've used them on.
Cleartype settings is one parameter in the equation (ClearType off will generally result in poor results with web fonts), monitor quality might be another factor. But more importantly – on Windows, Xp more than Vista, Win 7 up to date fares usually better – is hinting of the font. Fonts that were not made with screen display in mind will generally display poorly, particularly at small sizes. see e.g http://typographica.org/2011/on-typography/the-state-of-webfont-quality-from-a-type-designers-view/ or search through various articles on the TypeKit blog http://blog.typekit.com/ And then ccf vs ttf type of fonts. And some fonts are just not good. Philippe -- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] 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/
