#Techniques for Anti-Aliasing @font-face on Windows
It all started with an email from a client: Do these fonts look funky to you? The title is prickly.
The font in question was Port Lligat Sans from Google Web Fonts.
The "prickly" is aliasing caused by lack of hinting
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| (function(win,doc) { | |
| if (doc.querySelectorAll) { | |
| var inputs = doc.querySelectorAll('input[list]'), | |
| total = inputs.length; | |
| for (var i=0; i<total; i++) { | |
| var input = inputs[i], | |
| id = input.getAttribute('list'), | |
| list = doc.getElementById(id), | |
| options = list.getElementsByTagName('option'), | |
| amount = options.length, |
| (function($) { | |
| $.fn.textfill = function(maxFontSize) { | |
| maxFontSize = parseInt(maxFontSize, 10); | |
| return this.each(function(){ | |
| var ourText = $("span", this); | |
| function resizefont(){ | |
| var parent = ourText.parent(), | |
| maxHeight = parent.height(), | |
| maxWidth = parent.width(), | |
| fontSize = parseInt(ourText.css("fontSize"), 10), |
| gifify() { | |
| if [[ -n "$1" ]]; then | |
| if [[ $2 == '--good' ]]; then | |
| ffmpeg -i $1 -r 10 -vcodec png out-static-%05d.png | |
| time convert -verbose +dither -layers Optimize -resize 600x600\> out-static*.png GIF:- | gifsicle --colors 128 --delay=5 --loop --optimize=3 --multifile - > $1.gif | |
| rm out-static*.png | |
| else | |
| ffmpeg -i $1 -s 600x400 -pix_fmt rgb24 -r 10 -f gif - | gifsicle --optimize=3 --delay=3 > $1.gif | |
| fi | |
| else |
