Now the heat goes up with apple Safari font rendering and IE font rendering. In my previous post I’ve put some links and those guys are already discussed in detail about font rendering.

The inspiration for this post is Jeff Atwood’s post on IE and Safari font rendering difference

As part of my work, I will have to deal with Japanese websites and documents. Long time before, I noticed this glitch in Clear Type fonts while dealing with complex Unicode fonts like Japanese, Chinese etc. At that time there I could not see any other products using it’s own font rendering technologies, other than using built-in clear type option of Windows XP and later.

Safari uses comparatively higher contrast for font rendering. If you see the picture below, you can see the detailed sub-pixel rendernig even for the complex Unicode fonts like this.

Safari Normal View

IE – Normal view

Here it goes 6x zoomed version of these images. Click on Images to get the full sized images

Above Shows Safari Zoomed Image of Screen shot

Above shows IE Zoomed Image of screen shot

Are you doubting, I’ve not enabled clear-type in my machine? You can simply confirm it by checking the English Text just near the Japanese one.

I’ve used http://google.co.jp to analyze the difference.

You can check some interesting post and articles on Sub Pixel rendering

Clear Type (UnSung Hero of Windows)

How Sub-Pixel Font rendering works?

Joel On Software – Sub-pixel rendering and font smoothing