The font on these forums looks terrible

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July 26, 2012
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The font on these forums and many other parts of the Adobe.com site look terrible on my computer. This is on Windows XP, and I tried it on all the big browsers, and they all look like this:

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Dave Merchant

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@buckeye1973 - For some reason your browser isn't anti-aliasing the font. Support for web fonts is relatively new but when they're active the aliasing should be applied the same as it is for any other typeface - I'm viewing this on XP with Firefox 14.0.1 and it's working fine.

We know there are some combinations of browser and OS that break the anti-aliasing system - early versions of Chrome and remote desktop installations both have problems. Please reply with details of your system configuration.

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buckeye1973Author

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Dave Merchant wrote:
We know there are some combinations of browser and OS that break the anti-aliasing system - early versions of Chrome and remote desktop installations both have problems.

This is a known problem? So that means you would rather use a web font that looks pretty much like any other commonly available font for most people, knowing that for others it is a pain to read. It doesn't seem worthwhile. You end up with a font that is marginally (if at all) "better" for most people, and much worse for the rest.

Dave Merchant wrote:
Please reply with details of your system configuration.

You can blame my system configuration, and if other sites looked this bad on my browser I would agree. But the rest of the internet does not look like this, as far as I've seen, so I don't think of it as my problem. I suppose this makes me sound stubborn, but consider the user experience; I'm browsing the internet, everything looks fine, then I get to your site and it looks bad. And I'm supposed to think something is wrong with my computer?