[daniellockard]

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

[ivank]

Yet another reason I block everyone's webfonts.

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

[sil3ntmac]

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/

[cheald]

Have to design for the lowest common denominator. Just because you and I can install gditray or whatnot doesn't mean that most people will.

Edit: The link even says that it doesn't work with Chrome, so it's still a non-starter.

[ivank]

Chrome should have DirectWrite rendering soon: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups=#...

[stevestreza]

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

[ehsanu1]

This article explains and provides an implementation to do that: http://www.useragentman.com/blog/2009/11/29/how-to-detect-fo...

[rcgs]

Most webfonts look OK on windows vista and up.

[heyitsnick]

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]

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]

Yep. Chrome on Windows 7 looks awful.

[Vivtek]

The digits are especially confusing - the 4's render like European 1's.

[ehamberg]

What's the difference between European and non-European 1's?

[Vivtek]

Americans either write a single vertical stroke or an upward hook with a horizontal base line. Europeans (well, Germans and Hungarians to my own knowledge) write just the upward hook - to distinguish this from a 7, they cross the seven.

This font rendered fours (Chrome on Win 7) without the horizontal bar, leaving something that looked like a 1, to me.