Ever had a problem with using IE’s Alpha Visual Filter and getting blocky text? A solution has been found, and it doesn’t use JavaScript. I expect to hear a sigh of relief from many developers.
Entries Tagged as 'Fonts'
How to Make ClearType, @font-face Fonts and CSS Visual Filters Play Nicely Together
September 2nd, 2010 by zoltan · No Comments
Tags: CSS · CSS3 · ClearType · Fonts
How to Detect Font-Smoothing Using JavaScript
November 29th, 2009 by zoltan · 24 Comments
Interested in making web typography look better? Read about The Type Rendering Project! In an earlier article, I mentioned that Boing-Boing had a few issues when they wanted to use @font-face embedding inside their website. In short, the problem was that some fonts look bad on computer monitors without font-smoothing enabled in the operating system. [...]
Tags: CSS · Fonts · JavaScript
More @font-face fun
October 9th, 2009 by zoltan · 9 Comments
My first post @font-face in Depth got a huge amount of unexpected attention. Thank you all for your comments and criticism. Since the post, there have been quite a bit of information I have read about and thought I should share. SVG fonts for Opera and Chrome Jonathan Snook wrote a great article regarding Opera [...]