There must be a reason the Chromium/Chrome team decides to displays custom fonts like that on Windows. They almost universally look terrible, or at least worse than every other browser and every other platform. No other browser renders them so thin that the lines of the glyphs become disconnected.

I opened a bug report about font rendering and text color issues in 2011. Not only is narrow text rendered oddly as you can see, but if you give it any color other than black, the rendered color doesn't match the color you specify in CSS. It can be way off, like blues rendering as purple. Last I checked, the bug was still open with no work done on it.

I had to go in an remove the custom font CSS in chrome to get through that article. That font is absolutely terrible!

I'm glad I wasn't the only one that noticed the terrible typography.

Yup. It renders improperly on Chrome and Firefox, but properly on IE (at least, on IE10).