What's wrong with my font display?

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Do you have the same problem on http://www.ossfyd.com/

It only happens on Windows and I thought it worked on Windows 7 but I was either mistaken or there is an obscure option that needs to be toggled (something other than cleartype; this is a more serious aliasing problem).

Yeah something wrong here as well ::: http://i.imgur.com/T3YiT.png

It works great in Linux and OSX. I think windows probably hates the font.

The other sites you see trouble on were probably designed on Linux or OSX as well.

I am using Windows XP and I have Cleartype on: http://i.imgur.com/1pacl.png

I see the same issue with other sites like: http://i.imgur.com/sbzmy.png

The other site btw is androlib.com

It looks terrible because it's using the web font for Alte Haas Grotesk.

Is there a known problem with this font?

I don't know, but i've rarely seen webfonts that work out well on Windows. I haven't tried on any other OS.

How does typekit get them to work? Do they just hand-pick fonts that alias less terribly on windows?

Typekit probably uses Embedded TrueType/OpenType fonts, maybe that site used another. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_typography#Web_fonts

My site provides eot, woff, ttf, and svg versions of the font... http://www.ossfyd.com/fonts/stylesheet.css

Do a search on how to turn on Cleartype for whatever you're using.

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