Comments on: Screenshots of all our fonts in every browser, on every platform

By: Chad Walls - Tutor Guy

Chad Walls - Tutor Guy — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:39:43 +0000

Thanks for this post! I am new to web design and previous to reading this I was unaware how font appearance changes with different browsers. I have always viewed my sites with explorer and never questioned. After reading this post I viewed my site on various browsers and had to change the font style. Thanks for providing this tool.

By: Art

Art — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:02:09 +0000

In reply to Richard.

It should be enabled by default, but make sure you have ClearType enabled in your display settings. This could be the case–other than the fact that they just don’t look great (especially at small sizes) on Windows yet…

By: Art

Art — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:59:11 +0000

In reply to Andy Baker. The awful rendering on Windows PCs simply has to be resolved in order for web fonts to be taken seriously and not end up as yet another niche technology for designers to design for other designers. Whom, besides a website owner selling nothing but iPhone apps, cares about a technology that only renders correctly in Safari? Safari!?!

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:49:10 +0000

It’s a real shame, but the Typekit fonts look quite pixellated on my Windows 7 PC (regardless of Browser) so I can’t justify using Typekit at the moment until Windows 7 starts rendering fonts properly (they look fine in Windows XP and haven’t tried them in Vista but guessing that Vista will be more like Win 7 in that respect).
Any ideas on how to get around this issue? Is it just a case of lobbying Microsoft to get the default settings for Windows 7 changed (in which case we might as well give up?)

By: paulwigmore

paulwigmore — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:17:10 +0000

iMac user. Not yet using Typekit but getting to like the look of it! Is Palatino available in OS-X?

By: Kamahl

Kamahl — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 04:19:16 +0000

In reply to Erwin Heiser. Yeah, it is. For the most part, it renders the same as XP.

By: Erwin Heiser

Erwin Heiser — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:45:13 +0000

Great feature, although it doesn’t change the fact that font-face rendering on Windows is pretty dire at the moment. Let’s hope this improves in the future.
@Kamahl: Win98? That’s a joke right?

By: Dan Butcher

Dan Butcher — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:34:54 +0000

In reply to Andy Baker. I agree, and I think Andy has it exactly right: "bearable on Windows." I've been going through fonts, and I have yet to find one that looks as great in Windows as it does in OS X. It leaves me thinking that this is going to be about settling for adequate on one platform so I can have awesome on the other. That's not a choice I'm too happy with.

By: Kamahl

Kamahl — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:08:05 +0000

No Windows 98?

By: leahculver

leahculver — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:14:46 +0000

Thanks! This looks like a big time saver.