Optimize Legibility in Safari 5

Posted on Jun 29th, 2010 by Chris M.

Just saw this (via Daring Fireball):

Cross-browser kerning-pairs & ligatures

And thought, “there’s gotta be an extension for that.”  Well, looks like there isn’t… so I made one:

Optimize Legibility [4.64 kB]

Enjoy!

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  • http://twitter.com/newmediahub newmediahub

    Chris Morrell posted: Optimize Legibility in Safari 5 http://bit.ly/bNkauH

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  • http://twitter.com/bodhi bodhi

    @iA Ligatures as far as the eye can see! http://cmorrell.com/misc/optimize-legibility-safari-5-810

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  • http://twitter.com/iA iA

    RT @bodhi: @iA Ligatures as far as the eye can see! http://cmorrell.com/misc/optimize-legibility-safari-5-810

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  • http://twitter.com/FlorianGeiger FlorianGeiger

    RT @bodhi: @iA Ligatures as far as the eye can see! http://cmorrell.com/misc/optimize-legibility-safari-5-810 (via @iA)

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  • http://twitter.com/sklppr sklppr

    Safari Extension “Optimize Legibility”: Ligatures as far as the eye can see! http://bit.ly/crcf0N /via @iA

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  • http://twitter.com/Fontblog Fontblog

    Kerning and Ligatures in Safari 5: Chris Morell made an extension for that. Enjoy: http://bit.ly/buNt6I

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  • http://twitter.com/stn1978 stn1978

    RT @Fontblog: Kerning and Ligatures in Safari 5: Chris Morell made an extension for that. Enjoy: http://bit.ly/buNt6I

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  • http://twitter.com/Herr_Hartmann Herr_Hartmann

    RT @Fontblog: Kerning and Ligatures in Safari 5: Chris Morell made an extension for that. Enjoy: http://bit.ly/buNt6I

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  • http://twitter.com/cyberpet cyberpet

    RT @Fontblog: Kerning and Ligatures in Safari 5: Chris Morell made an extension for that. Enjoy: http://bit.ly/buNt6I

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  • http://twitter.com/urmel291 urmel291

    RT @Fontblog: Kerning and Ligatures in Safari 5: Chris Morell made an extension for that. Enjoy: http://bit.ly/buNt6I

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  • http://twitter.com/dtpblog dtpblog

    Kerning and Ligatures in Safari 5: Chris Morell made an extension for that. Enjoy: http://bit.ly/buNt6I (via @Fontblog)

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  • Steffen

    Genauso einfach geht’s mit einem benutzerdefinierten Stylesheet. Einfach eine Textdatei mit folgendem Inhalt erstellen und die Datei in den Safari-Einstellungen unter Erweitert als Style-Sheet auswählen:
    body { text-rendering: optimizeLegibility; }

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  • Sven

    So richtig toll ist das Ergebnis bei Webfonts manchmal jedoch nicht. Zum Test das Plugin mal aktivieren und sich dann die Überschrift des Suhrkamp-Posts auf dem Fontblog anschauen. Vor allem auf “Buchdesign” achten.

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  • http://www.fontblog.de/ Jürgen Siebert

    Das stimmt, Sven. Darum habe ich auch geschrieben: »… ich bin teils begeistert, teils unschlüssig.« In der obigen Abbildung habe ich das von Dir beschrieben Phänomen dargestellt. Ganz oben: Safari ohne Kerning, darunter Safari mit Kerning und ganz unten Firefox – die beste Darstellung. Meine Vermutung geht dahin, dass Typekit sein Safari-Rendering nachjustieren muss: Die Pixelsprünge und das Kerning zusammen liefern Löcher und Buchstabenberührungen. Firefox dagegen greift auf den selbst gehosteten Webfont zu (im Fall von Fontblog FF Yoga Sans), und das Ergebnis sieht ziemlich gut aus.

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  • http://animaux.de/ Alexander Rutz

    Bei mir zerhaut es mit optimizeLegibility in Safari die Umbrüche. Da werden plötzlich Zeilen länger als Sie eigentlich dürfen, und brechen in die nächste Spalte ein :/ (Firefox scheint auch ohne diese Zeile Ligaturen zu benutzen)

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  • luc

    hi chris,

    on my system safari crashes on loading this page: http://evanjones.ca/macosx-ipv6.html
    i have tried to deactivate all used fonts but the crash remains.
    this seems more like a safari bug. i just wanted to let you know …

    luc