This code enforces font-smothing for web fonts even if it's not enabled in the system settings. More info: http://pixelsvsbytes.com/blog/2013/02/nice-web-fonts-for-every-browser

fontsmoothie.js

// Font Smoothie copyright 2013,14,15 Torben Haase <http://pixelsvsbytes.com>
// Source-URL <https://gist.github.com/letorbi/5177771>
//
// Font Smoothie is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
// the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
// Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any
// later version.
//
// Font Smoothie is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
// ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
// FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
// details.  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
// License along with Font Smoothie.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
(function() { 'use strict';
 
function apply() {
	// NOTE Circles through all CSS rules of a sheet and fix them if
	//      necassary.
	function traverseSheet(sheet) {
		if (sheet.cssRules === null)
			return console.warn("Fontsmoothie warning: Browser blocks access to CSS rules in "+sheet.href);
		var href = sheet.href||location.href;
		href = new RegExp(href.substring(0, href.lastIndexOf("/"))
			.replace(/[-[\]{}()*+?.,\\^$|#\s]/g, "\\$&"), "g");
		for (var rule, j = 0; rule = sheet.cssRules[j]; j++) {
			// NOTE Only affect rules that have a src value (AFAIK
			//      this is only true for CSSFontFaceRule objects).
			if (rule.style && rule.style.src) {
				// NOTE Create a new rule where SVG is the preferred
				//      source format and delete the old rule.
				rule.style.src = rule.style.src.replace(href, ".")
					.replace(/([^;]*?),\s*(url\(\S*? format\(["']?svg["']?\))([\s,]*[^;]+|)/, '$2, $1$3');
				// NOTE Opera needs the rule to be deleted and inserted again
				//      (in that order) to apply it to the document.
				if (window.opera) {
					var text = rule.cssText;
					sheet.deleteRule(j);
					sheet.insertRule(text, j);
				}
			}
			rule.styleSheet && traverseSheet(rule.styleSheet);
		}
	}
	
	try {
		// NOTE Safari needs the canvas to be part of the DOM tree to
		//      return correct alpha values.
		var head = document.getElementsByTagName('HEAD')[0];
		var canvas = head.appendChild(document.createElement('CANVAS'));
		var context = canvas.getContext('2d');
		context.textBaseline = 'top';
		context.font = '32px Arial';
		context.fillText('O', 0, 0);
		// NOTE We won't check the alpha values of all canvas pixels,
		//      but only the one at position (5,8). If font-smoothing is
		//      off we loop through all CSS rules and fix them.
		for (var sheet, i = 0; (context.getImageData(5, 8, 1, 1).data[3] == 255) && (sheet = document.styleSheets[i]); i++)
			sheet && traverseSheet(sheet);
		head.removeChild(canvas);
	}
	catch (e) {
		// NOTE Ignore any errors that might occur.
		throw e; // DEBUG
	}
}

// NOTE Run Font Smoothie only if the system is Windows XP
if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf('windows nt 5.1') > -1) { 
	if (document.readyState == 'complete') {
		apply();
	}
	else {
		var f = window.onload;
		window.onload = window.onload ? function(evt){f(evt);apply();} : apply;
	}
}
 
})();

fontsmoothie.min.js

// Font Smoothie copyright 2013,14,15 Torben Haase <http://pixelsvsbytes.com>
// Source-URL <https://gist.github.com/letorbi/5177771>
(function(){function a(){function e(a){if(null===a.cssRules)return console.warn("Fontsmoothie warning: Browser blocks access to CSS rules in "+a.href);for(var b=a.href||location.href,b=new RegExp(b.substring(0,b.lastIndexOf("/")).replace(/[-[\]{}()*+?.,\\^$|#\s]/g,"\\$&"),"g"),c,f=0;c=a.cssRules[f];f++){if(c.style&&c.style.src&&(c.style.src=c.style.src.replace(b,".").replace(/([^;]*?),\s*(url\(\S*? format\(["']?svg["']?\))([\s,]*[^;]+|)/,"$2, $1$3"),window.opera)){var d=c.cssText;a.deleteRule(f); a.insertRule(d,f)}c.styleSheet&&e(c.styleSheet)}}try{var a=document.getElementsByTagName("HEAD")[0],h=a.appendChild(document.createElement("CANVAS")),b=h.getContext("2d");b.textBaseline="top";b.font="32px Arial";b.fillText("O",0,0);for(var d,k=0;255==b.getImageData(5,8,1,1).data[3]&&(d=document.styleSheets[k]);k++)d&&e(d);a.removeChild(h)}catch(g){throw g;}}if(-1<navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("windows nt 5.1"))if("complete"==document.readyState)a();else{var g=window.onload;window.onload= window.onload?function(e){g(e);a()}:a}})();

u can use document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0]

Can you upload the script to CDNs like https://cdnjs.com/?

I'd love a bower version for this as well if you'd like to do the honours... ;)

Yes, a bower or npm version would be awesome.