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Is it normal that fonts I used to create site layout are pixelated? I use Georgia, and in photoshop I’ve smooth lines everything looks great. But when I tried to slice it up and code the css, Georgia font same size looks noticeably uglier!
What are your thoughts?
p.s. I use em to declare sizes in css.
All fonts on the web will look a little pixellated unless you’re on a Mac which renders type considerably better than PC.
The best way I have found to replicate how a font will look on the web is to set the Anitialiasing in Photoshop to ‘sharp’.
It is conceivable that there will be CSS markup in the future that will allow antialiasing in the browser rather than OS based.
It is a common problem.
See this article
http://jontangerine.com/log/2007/10/smoothing-out-the-creases-in-web-fonts
The alternative is to use something like Cufon that generates images for your text. Best practice would be to only use it for headings.
http://cufon.shoqolate.com/generate/