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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by simonsarris on Friday May 11, 2012 @02:54PM (#3960715)

Not to be mean but the site's fonts look absolutely horrible on Chrome 20 in Windows 7. The top ones look messy and thick and the bottom one looks much too thin:

http://i.imgur.com/KUVwh.png

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by aik on Friday May 11, 2012 @06:03PM (#3961675)

The fonts look right for me (not like the other pics here) but I'm on Chrome 18 in Win7. Nice looking site.

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by tkazec on Friday May 11, 2012 @02:59PM (#3960750)

Presumably Windows' fault, since it has awful font rendering systemwide. Looks fine in Chrome 20 on Lion.

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by davidjohnstone on Saturday May 12, 2012 @01:39AM (#3962898)

Windows has a couple of different font rendering systems. Chrome uses GDI, IE9 uses DirectWrite, and Firefox can use either. DirectWrite is a lot smoother, and that's most of the reason why I prefer Firefox in Windows.

The fonts on this site look worst in Win/FF. They're not great in Win/Chrome, but at least they look well matched. It looks good in OSX/Chrome. Probably because that's what it was developed in.

Protip: different browsers render fonts differently. Test your site before you release it into the wild.

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by there on Friday May 11, 2012 @04:11PM (#3961132)

Looks ugly in Firefox on OS X, but maybe it's just a bad choice of font.

http://i.imgur.com/ze1iQ.png

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by angry-hacker on Saturday May 12, 2012 @05:48AM (#3963369)

The fonts look horrible on my Windows 7 64, on 32bit version it looks fine. Also on Ubuntu...

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by muraiki on Friday May 11, 2012 @05:22PM (#3961478)

The fonts are horrible in Firefox 12 on Windows XP, too.

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by muraiki on Friday May 11, 2012 @05:33PM (#3961533)

I don't know much about CSS, but I think what happened is that their source for the fonts have taken the files down. For instance, one of the referenced fonts is http://dshap.com/fonts/Gotham-Book.otf which now yields a 404.

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Re:Show HN: Want to learn design? Try Design Lab. by kcbanner on Friday May 11, 2012 @05:13PM (#3961437)

Yep, looks like crap for me too. Windows, Chrome 20.

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