Fonts looks different in Firefox and Chrome

Question

I am using Google Web Font\'s PT-sans

font-family: \'PT Sans\',Arial,serif;

but it looks different in Chrome and Firefox

Is there

Answer 1

i found this to be working great :

-webkit-text-stroke: 0.7px;

or

-webkit-text-stroke: 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7);

experiment with the "0,7" value to adjust to your needs. The lines are added where you define the bodys font.

here is an example:

body {
    font-size: 100%;
    background-color: #FFF;
    font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;
    margin: 0;
    font-weight: lighter;
    -webkit-text-stroke: 0.7px;

Answer 2

I've noticed that chrome tends to make fonts a bit more sharper and firefox a bit smoother. There is nothing you can do about it. good luck

Answer 3

Different browsers (and FWIW, different OSes) use different font rendering engines, and their results are not meant to be identical. As already pointed out, you can't do anything about it (unless, obviously, you can replace text with images or flash or implement your own renderer using javascript+canvas - the latter being a bit overboard if you ask me).

Answer 4

As of 2014, Chrome still has a known bug where if the webfont being used has a local copy installed, it choses to use the local version, hence, causing OP rendering issues.

To fix this, you can do the following:

First, target Chrome Browser or OSX (For me, the issue was with OSX Chrome only). I have used this simple JS to get quick Browser/OS's detection, you can chose to do this in any other way you're used to:

https://raw.github.com/rafaelp/css_browser_selector/master/css_browser_selector.js

Now that you can target a Browser/OS, create the following 'new' font:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'Custom PT Sans';    
    src: url(http://themes.googleusercontent.com/static/fonts/ptsans/v6/jKK4-V0JufJQJHow6k6stALUuEpTyoUstqEm5AMlJo4.woff) format('woff');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

The font URL is the same your browser uses when embedding the google webfont. If you use any other font, just copy and change the URL accordingly.

Get the URL here http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=PT+Sans:400,700&subset=latin,latin-ext

You may also rename your @font-face custom font-family alias.

Create a simple CSS rule to use that font targeting Browser/OS or both:

.mac .navigation a {    
    font-family: "Custom PT Sans", "PT Sans", sans-serif;
}

Or

.mac.webkit p {
    font-family: "Custom PT Sans", "PT Sans", sans-serif;
}

Done. Just apply the font-family rule wherever you need to.

Answer 5

To avoid font discrepancies across browsers, avoid using css styles to alter the look of the font. Using the font-size property is usually safe, but you may want to avoid doing things like font-weight: bold; instead, you should download the bold version of the font and give it another font-family name.

Answer 6

For me, Chrome web fonts look crappy until I put the SVG font ahead of WOFF and TrueType. For example:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'source_sans_proregular';
    src: url('sourcesanspro-regular-webfont.eot');
    src: url('sourcesanspro-regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
         url('sourcesanspro-regular-webfont.svg#source_sans_proregular') format('svg'),
         url('sourcesanspro-regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
         url('sourcesanspro-regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

Even then, Chrome's fonts look thinner than in Firefox or IE. Chrome looks good at this point, but I usually want to set different fonts in IE and Firefox. I use a mixture of IE conditional comments and jQuery to set different fonts depending on the browser. For Firefox, I have the following function run when the page loads:

function setBrowserClasses() {
    if (true == $.browser.mozilla) {
        $('body').addClass('firefox');
    }
}

Then in my CSS, I can say

body { font-family: "source_sans_proregular", Helvetica, sans-serif; }
body.firefox { font-family: "source_sans_pro_lightregular", Helvetica, sans-serif; }

Likewise, in an IE-only stylesheet included within IE conditional comments, I can say:

body { font-family: "source_sans_pro_lightregular", Helvetica, sans-serif; }