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by codelap 4474 days ago
Heh, they both look fine to me. I really couldn't see the difference... I'm a sucker for good design, but it seems my font style is in the incompetent zone.
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alfredxing 4474 days ago
The most noticable differences (apart from the rendering) are the fi ligature in the title ("overfilled") and the Q feature (where the tail is extended past the first letter ("Quisque").
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pygy_ 4473 days ago
Kerning is also better on OS X (with Firefox, Chrome and Safari 6), but it's hard to notice on the demo pages because, for some reason, the text body in the Google Fonts page is three pixels lower than in the Brick version.

I glanced at the CSS but couldn't find the reason.

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martinml 4474 days ago
I guess it depends on your setup. On Windows XP + ClearType + Chrome the difference is _huge_, it has a much better font smoothing.
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dmxt 4473 days ago
I'm just interested, why are you still on Windows XP?
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martinml 4473 days ago
Inertia (aka it's still working). I'm planning to upgrade OS and hardware before support ends. I can't wait to have more than 4 GB of RAM ;)
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