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Thin Text in Safari with Snow Leopard

21 September 2009

Safari has a not-so-lovely way of bulking up text using sub-pixel rendering. On previous versions of Safari, this was fixed with a text-shadow declaration, but since Snow Leopard that method no longer works. Fortunately, I’ve found an alternative.

Very useful – my only thought is that I wonder how this affects Safari on pre-SL and on Windows.

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