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Last post: 9 months, 3 weeks ago | Thread started: Jul 26, 12, 11:59 p.m.

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• dijitaq

  

  on the first row of the navigation i used a font which i converted using font squirrel font face generator. where as the second row, the text are images. even though i use the same weight, both are regular, the characters on the second row appears to be much bolder.

  how do i make the web font appear thinner? on the css i used
  li a{
  font-weight: normal;
  }
  but still it appears to be using bold.

  i also tried
  li a {
  font-weight: 100;
  }
  but it doesn't help either.

  anyone know of a solution?

  thanks

  Jul 26, 12, 11:59 p.m. – Permalink

• kingsteven

  'font-weight: lighter;' ?

  • or try and get it on TypeKit... the glyphs will be optimised for web, font squirrel will do shit like this.– kingsteven1/2

    Typekit will cost more, but should be better.– non2/2

  

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  Dog-earJul 27, 12, 12:46 a.m. – Permalink

• Nathan_Adams

  Safari/Chrome on OS X? It's the sub-pixel rendering, which makes reversed out type look too heavy. Use -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;

  • < only works with webkit browsers though.– non

  

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  Dog-earJul 27, 12, 12:59 a.m. – Permalink

• dijitaq

  thanks @nathan_adams!

  • no problem!– Nathan_Adams

  

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  Dog-earJul 27, 12, 1:08 a.m. – Permalink

• awebdeveloper

  Check out the source of elliotjaystocks.com there's some great stuff on font styling in there, not sure if it's documented in a blog post anywhere though

  

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  Dog-earJul 27, 12, 3:07 a.m. – Permalink

• phatwrx

  Are you viewing in FF. It makes everything with a stroke with @fontface.

  

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  Dog-earJul 30, 12, 8:31 a.m. – Permalink