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by goblinfoblin 4676 days ago
Remember that OSX makes fonts a lot thicker so this font looks insanely thin on other OSs. I'm on linux with ubuntu font rendering which is somewhat thicker than windows and it looks to thin to me.

Usually this means that it will look impossibly thin on Windows.

Raleway medium would look better, or you could look at some other fonts like Lato http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Lato

2 comments

Wow, I had absolutely no idea. I'm on a Macbook so I'll definitely be more mindful of that from now on. Thanks so much, this is super helpful. And thanks for the suggestion!
I am also on ubuntu & firefox and font is almost only anti-alias for me, not even 1 px wide. I can't imagine Windows if it is thinner