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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;
}
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OZZlE commented Aug 21, 2018

@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 :)

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OZZlE commented Aug 21, 2018

also sub pixel is default now in modern browsers

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

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