This is largely true for traditional Win32 programmes, like Chrome, Edge, Explorer.exe, etc. Many programmes runs properly only in designed locales, not that programmes run well in any locale.Ĭhinese/Korean rendered incorrectly on English UI because system hardcoded a font fallback, which put Japanese font first, regardless of how languages are ordered in the Settings. Powered by Hugo.I believe Windows's approach is localisation not globalisation. For everything else – all rights reserved unless otherwise noted. )Īll code shown in posts is licensed under MIT license. They are usually non-front-end programmers. I even know few people who disable all font smoothing and use blocky fonts. Which is the reason why on this site I use different fonts for italic and non-italic styles.īut, like I said, it’s a matter of habit. Here are few examples, made using Firefox 2 and Safari 3 beta, on Windows: Non-italic font smoothing is better with ClearType, but is ugly with most sans-serif italics, like Verdana or Tahoma. Me, as a long time Windows user who have long time ago fallen in love with ClearType but am increasingly using Mac, agree in parts with both. Its wonderful looking at a website on XP, and seeing gorgeous text smoothing. It’s worth pointing out that these tests were done on Macintosh computers, which are known for their superior handling of text… Jeffrey Zeldman uses examples to drive his point:

Jeff also wrote a great article on font smoothing. I’m curious why Apple’s default font rendering strategies, to my eye – and to the eyes of at least two other people – are visibly inferior to Microsoft’s on typical LCD displays Joel later wrote a quality post on font rendering, which is usually his norm. On my office computer (Pentium 4 3GHz, 2GB RAM) 1st time Safari startup took 5s. On another hand, this post is perfect example of “I fucked up writing on impulse, realized my main argument is mute and then dug my self even deeper trying to cover my mistake with half-ass attempts to irony”. Safari even managed to bring the inferior font rendering of the OS X platform to Windows, no easy trick. The always-opinionated Joel Spolsky says this: Here’s what some long-time Windows users say… Mac users use the same adjectives, just vice-versa. My experience so far tells me that it is largely a matter of habit: each and every Windows user I talked to thinks that Mac font smoothing is “shit”, “unreadable”, “hurts” etc. Introduction of Safari to Windows has rehashed old discussions about which font rendering is better, Windows ClearType way or Mac OS X way. Apple software Font rendering on Windows and Mac

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