Font Smoothing Techniques? text-shadow rendering differently in Chrome 14.0.833.0 or higher

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We\'re in Chrome 19 now, and this still isn\'t fixed. Just a clarification: this happens in Chrome on Windows, not Linux or Mac. I think it has t

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This was indeed how a lot of webfonts (Google Webfonts and also highly professional fonts from Typekit etc.) looked in Firefox (left) and Google Chrome (right) on Windows systems (and eventually elsewhere too). No joke! To clarify this: The only browser that completely messed up Google Webfonts was Google’s browser Chrome. How sick is that ? In 2013 Opera browser has switched it’s rendering engine to webkit (=the rending engine in Chrome), so this problem exists in Opera too.

more : http://www.dev-metal.com/fix-ugly-font-rendering-google-chrome/