More on @font-face
August 20th, 2009
Back in December 2008, I put together an example of using @font-face and described some of the deficiencies of using the Microsoft font format eot. It turns out that I was wrong and corrected on the quality of the font renderings of IE6. It can do a better job of rendering the fonts then I originally thought if ClearType is enabled.
IE:
Firefox 3.5
I also learned that to generate the IE compatible EOT font files there is a nice command line utility, ttf2eot. Check it out and hope this brightens a designers day!
Interesting.
Unfortunately, I don’t think we can count on IE6 users to change their default settings.
Heck, if they’re still using IE6, I bet they can’t even find the ClearType setting in Control Panel.
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Hi Joe,
It’s true IE6 users will probably not have a default font rendering setting of ClearType as they are probably either on Win2k or an older version of WinXP. For IE7 and on users with newer versions of WinXP and Vista will mostly likely have the ClearType settings enabled by default. There is more information about windows font rendering IE blog.. So, this means we have a pretty good solution for distributing fonts to IE, Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Opera…