Webfont Smoothing and Antialiasing in Firefox and Opera

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matt picture matt · Jul 12, 2012 · Viewed 329.8k times · Source

I have custom-made web fonts used on my site. To style my rendering output, I used the following code:

//-webkit-text-stroke-width: .05px;
//-webkit-text-stroke-color: white;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;

This works fine on Safari and Chrome (edges are sharper and lines are thinner). Is there any way of implementing the same style on Firefox and Opera?

Answer

Maximilian Hoffmann picture Maximilian Hoffmann · Jul 29, 2013

As Opera is powered by Blink since Version 15.0 -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased does also work on Opera.

Firefox has finally added a property to enable grayscaled antialiasing. After a long discussion it will be available in Version 25 with another syntax, which points out that this property only works on OS X.

-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;

This should fix blurry icon fonts or light text on dark backgrounds.

.font-smoothing {
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
    -moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}

You may read my post about font rendering on OSX which includes a Sass mixin to handle both properties.

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