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I find that the text of the site looks bad on Firefox in Linux, much worse than the screenshot of the actual Smalltalk system: https://i.imgur.com/LP2yNRI.png

Maybe they're just not doing as well at larger sizes?

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Thanks for the screenshot. I think there certainly is something to that – these typefaces were designed to render at exactly one specific size. I mean that's why there is a "Sans10" and a "Sans12" in the ST-80 GUI. I've drawn a few glyphs of the 12 already, it's quite interesting how these faces differ between weights and sizes…

I made a webfont test page where you can see Sans10 at the original size[1]

There are rendering differences, in Firefox the type colour[2] is slightly lighter than in Safari. I'll have to look if there is a way to disable font-smoothing across Browsers with CSS.

[1]: https://moritzfuerst.net/projects/smalltalk-type/webfont-tes...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_color

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