[brodney]

That does look better. How could a blur be incorporated into the ttf?

[dictum]

You could get an effect similar to blur adding many small circles/ellipses around the glyphs[1], but the glyph size would increase significantly and that could be an issue for some rendering engines.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halftone

[owenversteeg]

I might be wrong, but I believe that Inkscape has the ability to do blurring.

[taejo]

The TTF format does not, however.