Font Face jaggedness

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I have added Font Face to a site I am working on. Problem is, the text appears very jagged or bolder in Firefox and Safari, but it looks better in IE8. Attached is a screenshot. How can I fix this... if it's possible? Thanks

Here is my code:
@font-face {
    font-family: "ChunkFiveRegular";
    src: url('fonts/Chunkfive-webfont.eot');
    src: url('fonts/Chunkfive-webfont.eot?iefix') format('eot'),
         url('fonts/Chunkfive-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
         url('fonts/Chunkfive-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
         url('fonts/Chunkfive-webfont.svg#webfont90E2uSjN') format('svg');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}
.email_list_signup_container label {
   font-family: ChunkFiveRegular, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
   font-size: 18px;
   line-height: 20px;
}

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Cyberdave
 
typoman replied on at Permalink Reply
typoman
Have you tried to rebuild the fonts with another generator or settings? Seems to be anti-aliasing issues.

You can compare your results with the demopage onhttp://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontfacedemo/ChunkFive...

At this website you can also try the cool font-face generator.

Hope you can improve your results.
typoman
Cyberdave replied on at Permalink Reply
Cyberdave
I originally downloaded my Chunkfive pack from Font Squirrel.

I have searched but cannot find an alternative generator. What other font-face generators are there?
jordanlev replied on at Permalink Reply
jordanlev
I'm not sure if this would have anything to do with it, but the CSS in your @font-face definition doesn't look like it normally does from FontSquirrel -- perhaps improper syntax is causing those other browsers to use the wrong font file? I would try re-generating the font there just to get the updated CSS code from them. If that doesn't work, take a look at the "Expert..." options they have -- perhaps some settings could be tweaked to make it look better?

I'm personally not aware of another font generator like FontSquirrel.
typoman replied on at Permalink Reply
typoman
For EOT Fonts you can try this:http://www.eotfast.com/
Format used for Safari, Firefox, Opera
zoinks replied on at Permalink Reply
Sorry I am late to this party, but in case this helps:

http://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/customizing_c5/interrrest...

I ran into the same problems here (although my screenshot of the problem looks jagged and yours looks blurry, I actually used Chunk Five myself on another site and it was the same problem)... the answer is to basically use this method of linking to the style sheet:

<?php echo $this->getThemePath()?>/typography.css

instead of the other way which looks similar... this is hard-coded rather than dynamic. Apparently, the belief is that C5's caching causes the issue with fontface.
zoinks replied on at Permalink Reply
And if that doesn't help, here is the formula I ended up putting in my final style.css on the site that uses Chunk Five:

@font-face {
font-family: 'ChunkFiveRegular';
src: url('chunkfive-webfont.eot');
src: local('☺'), url('chunkfive-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('Chunkfive.otf') format('opentype'), url('chunkfive-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('chunkfive-webfont.svg#webfontzQ35IgDp') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}

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And to minimize any additional fuzziness, I used font-weight:lighter in my classes:

font-family: 'ChunkFiveRegular', Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-weight:lighter;
lyssagale12 replied on at Permalink Reply
Hi Zoinks

Please explain what is the actual problem in this code.


Lyssa Gale
allyourfonts.com
zoinks replied on at Permalink Reply
Apparently, the belief is that C5's caching causes the issue with fontface. However, the above code I provided works.
PeteDeane replied on at Permalink Reply
PeteDeane
You could try Google Fonts API. They're adding new fonts regularly at present and I know that they have fonts very similar to your desired font. I've used it many times and not experienced any problems with jagged edges.

Its worth a try.