Created attachment 38937 [details] example of the bug If you use a web font loaded with @font-face, and have a span of text rendered without anti-aliasing (for instance, Monaco 9px), followed by text rendered using the remote font, the text rendered in the remote font will also lack anti-aliasing. The text will continue to lack anti-aliasing until you use a local font again, that is anti-aliased. This bug occurs with several different web fonts that I tested, and several different local fonts at sizes small enough to disable anti-aliasing, and several different local fonts at larger sizes that caused anti-aliasing to be restored. This bug is present in the wild, for example on http://www.zeldman.com/superfriends/guide/ , assuming you have your fixed-width font set to a small enough size (I have mine set to monaco 9px). I've attached an example that demonstrates the problem, with several different variations of the problem showing up.
I have found an interim fix for this, just apply: -webkit-text-stroke-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width:1px; To any elements that give yout he problem.
This is still reproducible with nightly builds.
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Just ran into this in the wild with: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/07/11/110711fa_fact_auletta (caused by the "THE NEW YORKER REPORTING & ESSAYS" 8pt text before the headline) Selecting the headline text renders it anti-aliased, so in at at least some rendering paths the code is correct.
*** Bug 57490 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 67996 ***