Watchout for TypeKit.....
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- adev
I redid my site using TypeKit to replace my fonts, and while it looks awesome in Safari, and in FF on my Mac and my Windows 7 machine. It's a nightmare in XP, unless ClearType is turned on and chosen as the font smoothing option.
If XP's font smoothing is turned on using the standard method, not ClearType) text size type is unreadable. Only when you switch to ClearType is everything nice and pretty. Turning font smoothing off makes things readable, but kind of ugly.
I think I'm going to have to use sifr instead, because this isn't usable if you have to depend on older PCs having ClearType turned on right now. Maybe in the next few years when XP drops off the face of the earth for most people, since I believe Vista started coming with ClearType enabled by default.
- rson0
pics?
- ArmandoEstrada0
blame microCrap
- adev0
This isn't exactly as bad it can look but it's an example, since apparently Windows XP in VMware on my Mac doesn't replicate the results....
So, that instead, is from Windows 7/Firefox with ClearType Off. The lower the quality of LCD screen you use, the worse it looks IMO. Just dragging this image file from one screen to the next on my iMac I notice a big change in quality (20" imac screen is really bad..see photo below). And on the laptop with Windows XP and font smoothing set to Standard it's even worse. Notice how the letters are not a uniform color, they get darker and lighter? If the font is any smaller it's nearly impossible to read because it's so annoying to look at.
Now, the same image photographed on the built in screen on an aluminum 20" imac (closer to what I saw earlier on a windows xp machine)...
- JazX0
interesting
- Typographica0
Much of this depends on the quality of the fonts you're using. If the fonts aren't hinted XP will mangle them.
- SPECTACULAR0
cufon 1 - typekit 0
- http://wiki.github.c…Typographica
- True CSS fonts will always trump Cufon in the long run.Typographica
- Warland0
http://www.useragentman.com/blog…
This might help for a decent fallback (though not for firefox on xp)