Webfont Smoothing and Antialiasing in Firefox and Opera

Question

I have custom-made web fonts used on my site. To style my rendering output, I used the following code:

//-webkit-text         


        

Answer 1

Case: Light text with jaggy web font on dark background Firefox (v35)/Windows
Example: Google Web Font Ruda

Surprising solution -
adding following property to the applied selectors:

selector {
    text-shadow: 0 0 0;
}

Actually, result is the same just with text-shadow: 0 0;, but I like to explicitly set blur-radius.

It's not an universal solution, but might help in some cases. Moreover I haven't experienced (also not thoroughly tested) negative performance impacts of this solution so far.