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Just as a heads-up, the font 'appNormal' looks like this on Windows / Chrome 33:

http://i.imgur.com/mXfy7NR.jpg

Looks great on OSX etc, so as this is about beautiful books wanted to say. Hope that helps, and good luck with the idea - looks really interesting.

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AFAIK, Chrome/Windows does not do font antialiasing/smoothing, which it does do on Linux and OSX.

More important than "smoothing" - the font baseline is all over the place

Yep, it's the baseline. It looks even worse in IE11

http://i.imgur.com/jWcyrz6.jpg

Normally comments like mine can be a bit pedantic, but in this case it's the front page of something that 'builds beautiful programming books', so I think relevant.

It still looks terrible on Linux for me as well.

Same problem on FF ESR 24.4.0

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