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Re:Show HN: Myth – CSS the way it was imagined by dangrossman on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @03:54PM (#6923883)
It's only an issue on Windows because Chrome uses GDI to render text there, instead of DirectWrite like Firefox/IE use.
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Re:Show HN: Myth – CSS the way it was imagined by maxerickson on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @03:55PM (#6923891)
A lot of the text looks bad in Firefox on XP.
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Re:Show HN: Myth – CSS the way it was imagined by dangrossman on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @03:58PM (#6923917)
Because Firefox also used GDI on XP. It doesn't on newer versions of Windows.
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Re:Show HN: Myth – CSS the way it was imagined by SiVal on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @04:49PM (#6924195)
What's the workaround for this problem? This is the first I've heard of it, and it looks pretty bad.
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Re:Show HN: Myth – CSS the way it was imagined by buugs on Tuesday December 17, 2013 @05:54PM (#6924568)
Test on windows?

A lot of thin fonts look bad in Windows especially chrome. So you could probably make a safe bet that if a font is thin on OSX then it will be much thinner (sometimes unreadable) on Windows.

If you want to use thin fonts only use them for the titles (but even here it looks like that causes problems).

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