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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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