Stephanie EcklesHere’s an appropriately spooky topic… 👻
Give me your hot takes (and evidence based ones too) for whether or not to apply antialiasing to fonts.
Go!
Tyler Sticka@5t3ph Do you mean via CSS using smoothing/rendering properties or just generally?
@tylersticka yes, via CSS
@5t3ph My problem with these props is that they may exaggerate the difference in rendering between platforms (Mac vs. Windows, for example).
I see a lot of teams reach for these to fine-tune font weight, which is no longer as necessary thanks to variable fonts.
A few years ago, a large company we worked with kept turning these props off and on again. I worked with one of the stakeholders to commission a new version of their typeface with better hinting instead.