Posted on May 15 2012
It pains me to say it, but this is the first post in the ‘tomorrow’s web type today’ series that doesn’t look best in a WebKit browser: this time around, it’s Firefox’s turn to take the limelight. EDIT: Thanks to commenters below, I’m getting reports of this working in the latest Chrome on Windows and the most recent Safari Beta on Mac. It may sound a little hypocritical of me, given that the reason I used subsets for the heading on yesterday’s post was because I thought Firefox-only support wasn’t enough, but I couldn’t do a hack two days in a row.
So, if you haven’t done so already, I urge you to open Firefox (EDIT: or the latest Chrome on Windows) and look at this post there. I personally feel that Firefox’s text rendering is relatively poor — I don’t like the way it calculates em squares and, in turn, renders line-height and padding (look at the moz-specific rules I’ve had to employ in this post’s stylesheet) — but it’s currently the only browser to accurately render OpenType stylesets; in this case, those contained in the wonderful Bree.