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Type Rendering

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November 14, 2014
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Type Rendering

Deep dive into type rendering in web browsers.
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Transcript

  1. Type Rendering Outlines Hinting ANTIALIASING sub-pixel antialiasing Rasterizers CoreText web

    fonts GDI DirectWrite Sampling BLACK & WHITE grayscale color filtering LCD pixels TrueType SVG WOFF Bezier opentype ClearType Design Responsive Smoothing Typography twitter.com/@bram_stein

  2. TTF, OTF, SVG (WOFF, EOT)

  3. TTF, OTF, SVG (WOFF, EOT)

  4. TTF, OTF, SVG (WOFF, EOT)

  5. OpenType

  6. Outlines BASELINE X-HEIGHT CAP HEIGHT

  7. None
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  10. Hinting

  11. None
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  15. Antialiasing

  16. None
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  21. Subpixel Antialiasing

  22. Brian Wotherspoon - flickr.com/photos/brian_digital/

  23. None
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  25. Black and White Grayscale Subpixel

  26. Browsers

  27. Browsers Platform

  28. OSX iOS Chrome Sub-pixel / Grayscale Grayscale Firefox Sub-pixel /

    Grayscale n/a Opera <= 12 Sub-pixel / Grayscale n/a Safari Sub-pixel / Grayscale Grayscale

  29. Linux Android Firefox OS ChromeOS Chrome * Grayscale n/a Grayscale

    Firefox * Grayscale Grayscale n/a Opera <= 12 * Grayscale n/a n/a Safari n/a n/a n/a n/a Android n/a Grayscale n/a n/a

  30. Windows XP TTF Windows XP CFF Windows XP TTF ClearType

    Windows XP CFF ClearType IE6 Grayscale - Subpixel - IE7 Grayscale - Subpixel - IE8 Grayscale ?? Subpixel ?? Chrome Grayscale Grayscale Subpixel / Grayscale Grayscale Firefox Subpixel Grayscale Subpixel Grayscale Opera <= 12 Grayscale Grayscale Subpixel Grayscale

  31. Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows Phone IE7 Subpixel

    (GDI) n/a n/a n/a IE8 Subpixel (GDI) Subpixel (GDI) n/a ?? IE9 Subpixel (DW) Subpixel (DW) n/a Grayscale (DW) IE10 n/a Subpixel (DW) Grayscale (DW) Grayscale (DW) Chrome Subpixel / Grayscale (GDI) Subpixel / Grayscale (GDI) Subpixel / Grayscale (GDI) n/a Firefox Subpixel (DW) Subpixel (DW) Subpixel (DW) n/a Opera <= 12 Subpixel (GDI) Subpixel (GDI) Subpixel (GDI) n/a

  32. Responsive Typography

  33. None
  34. None
  35. None
  36. None
  37. None

  38. html { font-family: “Proxima Nova”, Verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: 300; }

  39. <html class=”tr-gdi tr-aa-none”> <html class=”tr-gdi tr-aa-subpixel”>

  40. html.tr-aa-none { font-family: Verdana; } ! html.tr-gdi { font-weight: 400;

    }

  41. typerendering.com

  42. Outlines Hinting ANTIALIASING sub-pixel antialiasing Rasterizers CoreText web fonts GDI

    DirectWrite Sampling BLACK WHITE grayscale color filtering LCD pixels TrueType SVG WOFF Bezier opentype ClearType Design Responsive Smoothing Typography Resolution DPI Mobile Typekit Request fin Thank you twitter.com/@bram_stein