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- CommentAuthorchimerical
- CommentTimeJan 28th 2006 edited
The Lucida family fonts (Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande) are a set of very nice fonts, as you may all know, but they look terrible without anti-aliasing. My current solution has been to set Lucida Grande first (because Macs have anti-aliasing on by default and Windows doesn't come bundled with that font) and then choose another sans serif font for Windows. I'd like to specify Lucida Sans Unicode and Lucida Sans if I could somehow figure out a way to detect whether anti-aliasing is switched on. Any ideas?
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- CommentAuthorNick Presta
- CommentTimeJan 30th 2006
HTML/CSS won't be able to help you and I doubt JS has what you need.
I really don't know how you would detect this as this value isn't passed through the browser but through the operating system iteself.
I'll look on it though. -
To my knowledge, there is not a way to detect whether ClearType (mac) or Font Smoothing (Windows) is enabled. However, I think you can make them anti-aliased by using flash text replacement. You would just want to do that for headers and what not though.
For body text, you might want to consider a more generic alternative that will look well regardless.
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