@font-face - smoothing (anti-aliasing)
25th September 2011
Gabrielle Font-face
no smoothing
Gabrielle Regular - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.
Gabrielle Font-face
smoothing
Gabrielle Regular - Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.
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Information
You may have noticed when using @font-face fonts that they generally appear a little jagged around the edges. Well this is a simple method to apply a little smoothing (anti-aliasing) so that they look more appealing.
Just apply a very small text shadow in the same color as the text.
The first block of text above uses the @font-face styling and in most browsers appears a little jagged.
The second block of text has the text shadow applied and in Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome and IE10 it appears 'smoothed'.
The styling for the above demo is shown below
.antialiased {text-shadow:0 0 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6);}
Copyright
You may use this method on your personal 'non-profit' web site without seeking my permission. A link back to CSSplay is always appreciated.
Commercial usage is also permitted without seeking approval, but I would ask that a donation is considered to support my work on CSSPlay.
If you are having problems integrating any of my demonstrations into your website then I now offer a service to fault find and correct any errors that you may have introduced. Please email me for more information.
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