[XLcommerce]

Cleartype wreaks havoc on webfonts. Turning it off gives you smooth fonts, but jaggy regular text >:|

Strangely IE6 (and 7? i think) are OK even with cleartype on.

There is a css hack to get font smoothing on windows:

h1{ text-shadow: 0 0 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.0001); /* Transparent Shadow make some kind of webkit font smoothing kick in */ }

[habitatforus]

I turned Cleartype off and that helped. The text shadow trick helped as well. I would have thought that using Chrome would mean that Google's fonts would have displayed correctly, but I guess Cleartype overrides that. I miss the day when testing a website meant using just IE and Netscape -- now I have to turn Cleartype on and off ... ugh

[uptown]

Thanks for that hack. I'd never seen that one before but font smoothing on Windows has always driven me nuts.