2013-09-19 23:06, Markus Ernst wrote:
In my new website http://www.markusernst.ch I use web fonts. Now I found that the appearance of these fonts is good in Firefox and IE, but quite poor in Chrome and Opera (on Windows 7).
The copy text font looks basically similar in Chrome and Firefox on my screen. Horizontal strokes in capital letters look irregularly thick.
They are actually high quality fonts, the main text font is Dalton Maag's Aller, the alternative headline fonts are Google web fonts.
High quality fonts designed for print media may not work well on screen.
Is it possible that Google's browser does handle Google's fonts poorly? (Actually, until know I was thinking that the fonts are displayed by the operating system rather than the browser applications.) Or do I have some mistake in my code?
Generally, font rendering is a rather complicated issue and depends on operating system, browser, display device, and other things. I think you should focus on one font at a time, in a simple setup, and experiment with different font sizes. I have seen Google fonts that mysteriously look very bad in some size but essentially better in a size 1px larger or smaller. This is bad news for those who favor the principle "let the user decide", since this normally means that the browser's default size will be used. On the other hand, checking with typical default size of 12pt should then deal with most problem of this type.
Oddly enough, when I try to use the Font Information 1.0 add-on (which normally works excellently) in Firefox on your page, I get basically blank font names (names consisting of "." and a box), in addition to the varying Google font names. So I suspect that there might be something wrong with the font files of the copy text - at least a broken name table.
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