Web Design

Fixing That Awful Light-On-Dark Text Rendering on Macs

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January 12, 2010 @ 11:52 am · 4

I’ve been using only Apple products for a couple of years now, and for the most part it’s been a pretty rewarding experience. That said, I know exactly what my least favorite part of the Mac experience is: its light-text-on-a-dark-background rendering in the web browser is gross.

How can there be so much attention to detail everywhere, but when I decide to invert my world with a dark-themed website I get blotchy, leaky type? Blech. Through many hours of experimenting and a happy accident while coding on the train, I stumbled across a solution.

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Meet SureDev, v2*

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April 4, 2009 @ 12:46 am · 0

*Beta, of course. :)

Version 2 of the site has been posted live for the world to see, and although there are still a bunch of tweaks that need to be made, things seem stable enough to release. IE users, I can’t promise you anything yet, but I’m working on it.

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