fonts look bad in safari
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- raf0
Old Safari bug that lasted for years and these days seems to spread to FF as well is that white text on dark background appears to be thicker.
- jbenjohnson0
anybody know what the offending font might be?
Helvetica and Lucida Grande are system fonts, Arial seems likely but I disabled it and didn't make a difference...
- jbenjohnson0
check that - I disabled Arial and restarted, and it looks much better!
- mightyj0
arial, tahoma, and helvetica are usually the cause and possibly your font management app that controls them. I was viewing all pages in italic for a while until I did a font cache clean and it went back to normal.
- akrok0
you need a pair of these....
- stewdio0
I've witnessed a random font rendering bug in Safari and it seems to be related to Flash. I'm not sure what triggers it—perhaps scrolling—but it's as if any HTML text in the path of a Flash file's scroll path gets its anti-aliasing garbled pretty badly. Is that what you're referring to?
- I don't think that's his problem, but I've noticed that same issue. Drives me crazy...Jacque
- Nathan_Adams0
Reversed out type appearing bolder is due to sub-pixel rendering. Change the rendering to anti-aliased in your css
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;If you want optical kerning too:
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;