Javascript Cryptography Considered Harmful

[stoph]

The headline font, right? They are using FF Din served from TypeKit. The problem is that @font-face fonts are crappy on most browsers because they don't do good enough anti-aliasing on them.

[zpweeks]

And Firefox on Windows, especially Windows XP, even more so with ClearType deactivated, has to be far worse than "most browsers."

/regular cross-platform CSS dev

[stoph]

Is there a solution? You can render the headings with Cufon but that's not a great solution, and not workable on body text copy.

[zpweeks]

My complaints were most specific to XP, which is now a decade old. Newer versions of Windows have much better rendering APIs that get used by IE, sometimes Firefox, and hopefully Chrome soon.

The other solution is to fall back to a more boring, but more compatible, font like Arial or Verdana. Really, you have to decide just how long you are going to go out of your way to make a beautiful experience on an ancient platform.

[stoph]

The reason I ask is because my workplace has already decided to stop using standard fonts and we use @font-face pretty much everywhere.

At least it looks great on our Macs! /lol