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Why is this feature even available in webkit? I can't imagine any situation where I'd want a particular website to override OS font smoothing settings.

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Some fonts (especially less-common ones now available through @font-face) just get hinted too strongly with subpixel AA. I wouldn't use this property in body text (if your body font doesn't hint well at that size, you need a new font), but I've used it before on title copy and it really does make an improvement.

No?

How about hand-made pixel-based fonts? Or how about some of the sub-pixel fonts out there: http://typophile.com/node/61920

How about just using the fonts that I told the system to use, the way I told it to use them? I installed and selected those fonts for a reason, thank you.

If you've configured your browser to override webpage-specified fonts with your choices, it seems to me that anti-aliasing is surely not going to be high on your list of concerns...

I see you're definitely not a typography nut.

Hey, I know. Comic Sans is on essentially every computer. We should all just use that.

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