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Re::syntax Off by xentronium on Monday November 05, 2012 @02:02AM (#4742548)
Yet another case of chrome's bad rendering.

The font used: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/IM+Fell+English

Why would anyone try and use bad typewriter font imitation on a website is beyond me.

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Re::syntax Off by jamesaguilar on Monday November 05, 2012 @02:37AM (#4742617)
Erm. It seems like the problem is not with Chrome's rendering but with the site owner's font selection.
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Re::syntax Off by ojiikun on Monday November 05, 2012 @02:06AM (#4742556)
It's not just Chrome.

I get just as awful a rendering on Firefox ESR 10.0.5 on Win7-64.

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Re::syntax Off by petercooper on Monday November 05, 2012 @02:50AM (#4742636)
More like Windows' bad rendering. It looks fine in my Chrome on OS X. A bit of a lame font but readable and not all flaky like the Windows screenshot linked by the original commenter.
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Re::syntax Off by joshuacc on Monday November 05, 2012 @09:16AM (#4743495)
Chrome renders fonts differently than other browsers in Windows 7. Possibly for speed reasons? Both the latest FF and IE9 look decent.
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Re::syntax Off by pcwalton on Monday November 05, 2012 @11:38AM (#4744316)
It's more historical at this point. Chrome doesn't use DirectWrite because it uses Skia on Windows. At the time, the choice was between GDI+ and Skia, and Skia was much faster. But DirectWrite on Vista and 7 is extremely fast (it's GPU-accelerated, unlike the Skia backend Chrome uses).
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Re::syntax Off by vacri on Monday November 05, 2012 @06:12AM (#4743019)
Looks fine in my win7/FF16 arrangement
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