Is there any reason not to use font-smoothing: antialiased?

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Is there any reason not to use font-smoothing: antialiased?

Too subjective IMO. Quick google search yields: http://madebynico.com/webkit-font-smoothing/ — Fabrício Matté, Jun 05 '14 at 06:01
For firefox use `-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;` to fix OSX's dodgy font rendering. — pstenstrm, Jun 05 '14 at 06:32

BoltClock · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-05T06:28:40.460

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Not all typefaces are optimized for alternative smoothing modes
Browser support is incredibly spotty, in fact I believe it's actually a proprietary WebKit property, i.e. -webkit-font-smoothing, and not in any standard (the only "standard" I am aware of is font-smooth which was never relevant anyway)

That's all I can think of.

edited Jun 05 '14 at 06:28

answered Jun 05 '14 at 06:02

BoltClock

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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Font-smoothing is not supported now. It is not in new css standards. http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-font/#font-smooth

You can try text-shadow property

text-shadow: #fff 0px 1px 1px;

edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

Community

answered Jun 05 '14 at 06:03

4dgaurav

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That module is obsolete and has been replaced by http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts I'm not sure why they didn't leave a note at least. – BoltClock Jun 05 '14 at 06:04
Is that so? Hmm. What should one do if you want to make your font smoother? – lindsay Jun 05 '14 at 06:06
@BoltClock: at the top of that working draft of 2002, is a link to the latest version. – Abhitalks Jun 05 '14 at 06:09
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@abhitalks: Oh, I see it now. So the two modules are one and the same. – BoltClock Jun 05 '14 at 06:10

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 05 '14 at 06:15

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Because, it is non-standard:

Though present in early (2002) drafts of CSS3 Fonts, font-smooth has been removed from this specification and is currently not on the standard track.

answered Jun 05 '14 at 06:15

Abhitalks

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