Tue 01 Nov 2016 06:38:56 PM UTC, comment #1:
Hello, anoonymous,
On my system (Linux Mint 18) using Firefox 49.0.2, the page looks quite different from your image. See attached. This is using 10 pt font, which seems rather smaller than what you have.
To me, the dot on the i is quite distinct, and the e's are better shaped than in your picture. But overall the letters are lighter in your picture, and the GN is spaced better, I think.
All of these effects are games being played by the font rendering software, trying to put small shapes in a pixellated environment. At small font sizes the behavior becomes very idiosyncratic. At some point, trade-offs must be made.
There are some things to look for though. For Windows, make sure you install the TrueType (.ttf) package, rather than the OpenType. The former is hinted, and Windows makes more use of hinting.
In Firefox there are hidden setting (under about:config) that affect font rendering.
In Windows, the font rendering technology is called ClearType. It has adjustments and can be turned on and off.
Fiddle around with these. Meanwhile I'll have a look at the page in Windows, once I get to a machine that's running it.
Cheers!
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