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December 17 2010

Window’s Clear Type is great for small texts but if you like typography you already know that it sucks for large fonts. I just discovered that, in Google Chrome, you can avoid that problem just by applying a transparent text shadow to the text: text-shadow: transparent 1px 1px 1px; Unfortunately, this only works because of a “bug” in Google Chrome that changes the way the fonts are rendered when applying shadows. At some point they will fix it and it won’t work anymore. The real solution should come from Microsoft.

Window’s Clear Type is great for small texts but if you like typography you already know that it sucks for large fonts.

I just discovered that, in Google Chrome, you can avoid that problem just by applying a transparent text shadow to the text:

text-shadow: transparent 1px 1px 1px;

Unfortunately, this only works because of a “bug” in Google Chrome that changes the way the fonts are rendered when applying shadows. At some point they will fix it and it won’t work anymore. The real solution should come from Microsoft.