Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Type Rendering

Sponsored · Ship Features Fearlessly Turn features on and off without deploys. Used by thousands of Ruby developers. →
Avatar for Bram Stein Bram Stein
November 14, 2014
Design
840
7

Type Rendering

Deep dive into type rendering in web browsers.

Avatar for Bram Stein

Bram Stein

November 14, 2014

More Decks by Bram Stein

See All by Bram Stein
Are variable fonts the future of web typography?
Avatar for Bram Stein bramstein
1
1.6k
Line breaking, justification, and variable fonts
Avatar for Bram Stein bramstein
2
3k
The Science of Typography - DIBI
Avatar for Bram Stein bramstein
5
700
Web Fonts Performance
Avatar for Bram Stein bramstein
12
1.3k
The Science of Typography
Avatar for Bram Stein bramstein
12
2.4k
Web Fonts Performance
Avatar for Bram Stein bramstein
110
31k
The Consequences of Web Fonts
Avatar for Bram Stein bramstein
32
4.1k
The State of Web Type
Avatar for Bram Stein bramstein
19
6.2k
Web Typography
Avatar for Bram Stein bramstein
7
1.1k

Other Decks in Design

See All in Design
デザインを信じていますか
Avatar for sekig(ojiee) sekiguchiy
1
1.3k
セブンデックス プロジェクト事例 / innovation Scenes
Avatar for セブンデックス sevendex
1
1.1k
「余白」と「欲望」を味方につける ——AI時代のデザインエンジニアリングと「越境」の作法 #KNOTS2026
Avatar for koyaman koyaman
1
1.9k
Signull 団体説明資料
Avatar for Signull signull
0
670
test deck title
Avatar for Shota Matsuo shotamatsuo
0
1.5k
2026年の勢い / Momentum for 2026
Avatar for bebe bebe
0
470
CULTURE DECK／Creative Director
Avatar for M-HAND,Inc. mhand01
0
1.3k
空間アプリ開発のフィードバックをCodexにするための抽象的なデザインツールの模索
Avatar for kazuhiro hara karad
0
150
はじめての演奏会フライヤーデザイン
Avatar for Kaito Kikuchi chorkaichan
1
310
AIでデザインをつくる：基礎編
Avatar for 太田賢一 kenichiota0711
4
3.2k
20251217リビングラボ・トークin尼崎（尼崎おせっかい会議＆オトナテラコヤ）
Avatar for Kimura Atsunobu a2k
0
140
Design dependencies
Avatar for Teba_eleven teba_eleven
0
130

Featured

See All Featured
Code Review Best Practice
Avatar for Trisha Gee trishagee
74
20k
Dominate Local Search Results - an insider guide to GBP, reviews, and Local SEO
Avatar for Greg Gifford greggifford
PRO
0
200
Jamie Indigo - Trashchat’s Guide to Black Boxes: Technical SEO Tactics for LLMs
Avatar for Tech SEO Connect techseoconnect
PRO
0
170
B2B Lead Gen: Tactics, Traps & Triumph
Avatar for Sophie Logan marketingsoph
0
160
Heart Work Chapter 1 - Part 1
Avatar for Lake Fama lfama
PRO
7
36k
"I'm Feeling Lucky" - Building Great Search Experiences for Today's Users (#IAC19)
Avatar for Dan Newman danielanewman
230
23k
Visual Storytelling: How to be a Superhuman Communicator
Avatar for David Neal reverentgeek
2
560
A better future with KSS
Avatar for Kyle Neath kneath
240
18k
We Have a Design System, Now What?
Avatar for Morgane Peng morganepeng
55
8.2k
The MySQL Ecosystem @ GitHub 2015
Avatar for Sam Lambert samlambert
251
13k
The State of eCommerce SEO: How to Win in Today's Products SERPs - #SEOweek
Avatar for Aleyda Solis aleyda
2
11k
Deep Space Network (abreviated)
Avatar for Tony Rice tonyrice
0
210

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
  8. None
  9. None

  10. Hinting

  11. None
  12. None
  13. None
  14. None

  15. Antialiasing

  16. None
  17. None
  18. None
  19. None
  20. None

  21. Subpixel Antialiasing

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

  23. None
  24. None

  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