Font like Crisp in PS Using CSS
Ya know how you can choose fonts in photoshop to be "none, sharp, crisp, strong, smooth" is there a way to get them to look like that using CSS?
I have seen fonts on other sites that look unusually crisp and they aren't images.
02bunced posted this at 06:16 — 20th April 2006.
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Hmm - just a thought. Are they using verdana as opposed to Arial? The former is designed for screen use. Other than that, I don't have any idea of hand. Sorry
JeevesBond posted this at 12:32 — 20th April 2006.
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There is currently no way of controlling anti-aliasing with CSS. Even if there were MS wouldn't support it. They don't even seem to have support for it in their OS (Hah!)
It would be a good addition to the standard though, maybe in CSS 3? Maybe you/we should suggest it?
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DaveyBoy posted this at 16:37 — 20th April 2006.
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This web site that i like the look of : http://www.smarterfuel.com/
The titles on there seem to be anti-aliased somewhat, i actually thought/assumed they were images when i first looked.
teammatt3 posted this at 01:13 — 21st April 2006.
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That's exactly what I'm talking about Davey (thanks for the link.) Anyone know how to get that effect?
Renegade posted this at 04:46 — 21st April 2006.
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If you have a look closely, it's actually done with flash.
I remember when I was taking my web design course, someone mentioned this.
Just have a google for it
CptAwesome posted this at 16:21 — 4th May 2006.
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I am using the IE 7 Beta on one of my Windows machines, and it antialiases all pages, making everything look extra crispy.
JeevesBond posted this at 19:38 — 4th May 2006.
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Well it's about time, some of us have been using Operating systems/browsers that have anti-aliased text for years. Just because Microsoft did it doesn't mean it's new
There are a couple of ways around this issue, one is just playing with fonts until they don't look too bad, or use that Flash technique. I knew I'd seen this before, and here's how they did it: sIFR (http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/). Damn, wish I'd bookmarked that, although I ditched the idea as it relies on Flash and JavaScript. But is SEO friendly and semantic. Apparently.
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Renegade posted this at 20:01 — 4th May 2006.
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Well, that flash method is actually quite common. I see it almost everywhere now.
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