I like the way Apple does it. So much cleaner, clearer, and easier to read.
Need to figure away to make Windows render like that.
You can set a shadow to the text and use an extremely low opacity, choose a color somewhere between the font color and the background-color in darkness.
text-shadow: 0 0 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/xGDre
Other options rely on @font-face...it really is up to you and what will work better in your situation and for the most people viewing your site.
Searching for 'anti-aliasing', '@font', or 'smooth text' will get you headed in the right direction...
About smoothing. I came into Windows, I opened Chrome and I came on kremen.ua
Enormous difference in display of a font to Mac and to Windows!
There are solutions of JS/CSS for font smoothing in the browser?
The primary difference is that Microsoft try to align everything to whole pixels vertically and sub-pixels horizontally.
Apple just scale the font naturally – sometimes it fits into whole pixels other times it doesn’t.
This means Windows looks sharper at the expense of not actually being a very accurate representation of the text. The Mac with it’s design/DTP background is a much more accurate representation and scales more naturally than Windows which consequently jumps around a lot vertically.
Unfortunately, that doesn't really help the issue of wanting a website to look consistent for all users.I believe in Win7 and beyond, you are now able to adjust ClearType settings so you can make fonts look a little more or less sharper. Making things a little bolder makes text look somewhat similar to Mac OS X, which uses Quartz Extreme for font smoothing and anti-aliasing.
Unfortunately, that doesn't really help the issue of wanting a website to look consistent for all users.
most users will not set. smoothing to do for all users.I believe in Win7 and beyond, you are now able to adjust ClearType settings so you can make fonts look a little more or less sharper. Making things a little bolder makes text look somewhat similar to Mac OS X, which uses Quartz Extreme for font smoothing and anti-aliasing.
screenshots in this topic of Arial. I do not know the concept of cross-platform may affect the quality of display.For websites, the only great solution is to use a cross platform font (there's ~6 of them) and web fonts (but even browsers may render fonts slightly different), and fallback fonts for critical sections. Or, images if it really must look the same, but that's bad for your health!
I think something can be.Again, this doesn't really fix the issue, though. At the end of the day it's really just up to the end user to configure their Cleartype settings properly... and some people really just could be arsed.
I believe in Win7 and beyond, you are now able to adjust ClearType settings so you can make fonts look a little more or less sharper. Making things a little bolder makes text look somewhat similar to Mac OS X, which uses Quartz Extreme for font smoothing and anti-aliasing.
I think the little things are important. It's like a Unibody and Magsafe for Apple. Even more important.Honestly? Who cares? Want to see a huge disparity on how fonts are rendered? Fire up Linux and hit a few sites. If you're OCD about how a font looks online, you'll go running back to Windows and never worry about font rendering again.
Unless your site specializes in graphics and the preview of said graphics is critical, minor issues on how the various operating systems render fonts should be a non-issue. Seriously.
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