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Re:From Moleskine to Market by San on Thursday December 31, 2009 @09:47AM (#1024334)
The font rendering varies wildly between browsers: http://i47.tinypic.com/1125ssp.png

From left to right: Firefox (Win), Chrome (Win), Safari (Win), Safari (Mac)

Firefox renders the font way too light, Chrome (this version at least) falls back to a default font, and Safari on Windows uses incorrect kerning and renders the some characters too narrow. Only Safari on Mac renders the font acceptably (except from the heavy diagonal on the capital N and the oversized apostrophe, maybe).

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Re:From Moleskine to Market by gnosis on Thursday December 31, 2009 @03:08PM (#1024875)
Another data point for you, Opera on Gentoo Linux:

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/4621/1231150731.png

To me it looks pretty similar to your Firefox screenshot.

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Re:From Moleskine to Market by barrkel on Friday January 01, 2010 @04:30AM (#1025577)
That isn't using the right font either. The 'e' is all wrong.
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Re:From Moleskine to Market by barrkel on Friday January 01, 2010 @04:32AM (#1025578)
As I understand it, Mac doesn't use 96dpi as its logical mapping, but rather 72. The kerning in Firefox (Win) isn't great either.
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