Thursday, August 19, 2010

OptimizeLegibility extensions for Safari and Chrome make text on the Web look better

OptimizeLegibility extensions for Safari and Chrome make text on the Web look better

Filed under: Text, Utilities


Here's one for the font nerds: there's a CSS declaration called optimizeLegibility that fixes kerning and ligatures in a lot of Web fonts. For the less design-savvy amongst us, that means it makes sure certain letter pairs are spaced properly and combined into special characters where appropriate. Designers don't always use optimizeLegibility, though, so it's time to take matters into your own hands with an extension for Safari or Chrome.

The extensions just insert an optimizeLegibility declaration into the CSS of any page, so they're super-lightweight and won't increase page load times at all. The Safari version is by Chris Morrell, and the Chrome version is by John Michel. Firefox users, don't worry: optimizeLegibility is on by default for text sizes 20px and larger.

OptimizeLegibility extensions for Safari and Chrome make text on the Web look better originally appeared on Download Squad on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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