Are you running it in Chrome/Windows?

If so: Chrome's font rendering uses GDI rather than DirectWrite and it leads to some very ugly rendering with certain web fonts. This is a known issue and they are working on changing this: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692#c...

Haha, thanks for pointing that out. I'll play around with it after dinner and try to find something less annoying.

Yeah, I agree. Extremely pure choice of <p> color, given the white background.

zoom you browser in 10% (ctrl+). i get this issue on a lot of personal blogs and this always fixes it to some degree