Significant contrast in how text is displayed between Chrome and Firefox

Experiencing significant discrepancies in text rendering between Chrome and Firefox. Chrome appears to apply anti-aliasing rules that reduce the text size considerably.

Attempts have been made to adjust -webkit-font-smoothing, letter-spacing and word-spacing, but no noticeable results have been achieved.

Attached are screenshots for reference

Relevant CSS (computed): 

color: #C4C4C4;
font-family: sans-serif;
font-size: 9px;
font-style: normal;
font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal;

Relevant CSS (computed): 

font-family:    sans-serif;
font-size:  9px;
font-weight:    400;
font-style: normal;
font-size-adjust:   none
color:  #C4C4C4;
text-transform: none;
text-decoration:    none;
letter-spacing: normal;
word-spacing:   0;
line-height:    11.0833px;
text-align: start;
vertical-align: baseline;
direction:  ltr;

It is important to note that the faded text in the background is simply an image; please disregard it.

Suspect that Chrome may have a css option related to anti-aliasing rules, but unsure where to find more information.

Edit:

jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/mHzhQ/

Just mentioning that I am using Ubuntu. Could this be a factor influencing the issue?

Any helpful suggestions?

cssfirefoxgoogle-chromefontsantialiasing

Answer №1

Each web browser operates using its own unique rendering engine, resulting in varying outcomes. This discrepancy is often most noticeable when dealing with smaller font sizes. Unfortunately, there may be limited options available to rectify these inconsistencies. In some cases, the issue may not be intentional on the part of the browser developers and could potentially be a glitch that has been resolved on different operating systems, except for Ubuntu.

(As a suggestion: it might be worth verifying your "minimum font size" settings in Chrome — Preferences > Under the Hood > Customize Fonts... — and Firefox — Preferences > Content?)

Answer №2

Using "sans-serif" as a font-family option can lead to different font renderings.

If you specify the font family as Verdana and then fallback to sans-serif, you are likely to achieve a consistent display across various browsers.

Hope this helps!

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