That looks great on OS X and Safari but the fake italics are just wrong. Don’t know why you would say that it sucks.
– edit: Ah, that font doesn’t have a italic or bold variant, that explains it. Now I don’t know what could possibly be wrong with the rendering in OS X.
I'm glad it doesn't suck on your browser :)
Re:Google Font Directory
by bradendouglass on Saturday September 04, 2010 @11:43AM
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I am rocking Chromium and it seems to render fine on mine as well. I do however, agree that there needs to be some text rendering continuity between browsers.
It really is a shame that maybe tops, 5 people are talking in this thread and most of us are seeing different renders
In Firefox 4 and IE9, the much smoother Windows DirectWrite API is used. In Firefox 4, you need to toggle a gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled preference in about:config though.
I understand why they'd make it optional (in the Firefox way of 'if you know about it you can enable it') but why not enable it automatically on platforms that support it?
Every OS, and every browser on that OS renders text differently. Read this for more on that: http://24ways.org/2009/real-fonts-and-rendering
I recently wrote a silly article, mainly to see how the typography will shape the whole feel of the webpage at http://www.sushaantu.com/moustache.html It looks awesome to me on my Ubuntu Chromium 7 but sucks on Firefox 3 of Windows and OSX.
Google Font Directory is indeed a great thing to make web little more beautiful but we need support from OS and browsers as well which are making steady pace.