Web font in Chrome

Question

I have a webfont that looks amazing on Firefox, not so much on Chrome. I've tried playing with the text-rendering property, with less-than-spectacular results. My CSS is something like this:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'TextFont';
    src: url('[my font file url]') format('truetype');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}
body {
    font-family: TextFont, Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif;
    text-rendering: auto;
}

Changing text-rendering doesn't seem to do anything in Firefox, so I'm posting a single screenshot for it.

Results:

• Firefox (a.k.a. "what it should look like")

  

• Chrome - text-rendering: auto

  

• Chrome - text-rendering: optimizeLegibility

  

• Chrome - text-rendering: optimizeSpeed

  

• Chrome - text-rendering: geometricPrecision

  

All of the Chrome screenshots look really bad compared to the Firefox one. Is there something I'm missing in the CSS?

I'm using Windows 7, Firefox 8.0, and Chrome 15.0.

Answer 1

Not sure if this is what you're seeing, but Chrome has an issue with anti-aliasing and truetype fonts. As per http://www.fontspring.com/blog/smoother-web-font-rendering-chrome, you can instead specify the SVG font before the TrueType in your font-face, e.g.:

@font-face {
font-family: 'MyWebFont';
src: url('webfont.eot'); 
src: url('webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
    url('webfont.svg#svgFontName') format('svg'),
    url('webfont.woff') format('woff'),
    url('webfont.ttf')  format('truetype');
}

The biggest downside is that Safari will download both the svg and the woff.

Answer 2

Try this:

 -webkit-text-stroke: .5px

The .5 is kind of arbitrary - some pixel value between 0 and 1 is the key. This forces sub-pixel hinting of the font.

A demo can be seen here: http://dabblet.com/gist/4154587