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Better font smoothing in cross browser
html {
/* Adjust font size */
font-size: 100%;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;
/* Font varient */
font-variant-ligatures: none;
-webkit-font-variant-ligatures: none;
/* Smoothing */
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
font-smoothing: antialiased;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, .01) 0 0 1px;
}
@JohnMica

JohnMica commented Dec 7, 2017

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nice one man, the shadow to the text is something new :).

thanks

@maxmilton

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Why explisitly set font ligatures to none?

What is the font-smoothing property? Did you mean font-smooth (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/font-smooth)?

@derekbtw

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@maxmilton font-smoothing is supported by webkit and moz.

@dben89x

dben89x commented Feb 10, 2018

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Nice.

@dinofx

dinofx commented Feb 28, 2018

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Or, just go with the platform's sub-pixel anti-aliasing, which is objectively sharper and easier to read.

@jpcmf

jpcmf commented May 14, 2018

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nice, thanks :)

@sreegopi

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It's looking good. thank you :)

@zinchenko

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thanks for the text-shadow thing!

@OZZlE

OZZlE commented Aug 21, 2018

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@dinofx if you have a custom font without many variations using regular anti-aliasing instead of sub-pixel makes the font look thinner, it's a trick I use often when the font I'm using doesn't have a thin variation and in the design looks the font looks thinner :)

@OZZlE

OZZlE commented Aug 21, 2018

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also sub pixel is default now in modern browsers

@CorinLUSI

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would this still be considered the best cross browser font smoothing?

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