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On the left is firefox 4, on the right is chrome 12. Is there a way to make chrome render prettier fonts?
The above image was taken on windows xp. Below is another example from windows 7.
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Solution:
Check ClearType settings – the Chrome screenshot looks like it’s being forced to render non-anti-aliased. That will kill just about any web font, since they don’t have monochrome hints (for size reasons among other things). I used to see this reported as “IE renders text better”, because it ignores your OS-level ClearType settings and turns it on by default.