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I thought GWF were doing some processing to make the fonts work better on Windows? They way I understood it they were running the auto-hinter that Linux would use and then storing the hints inside the font for use by Windows. If that's true then the version hosted by Google (at least) should also look better than the complete disaster you get with entirely unhinted fonts at small sizes.



Interesting. I was looking at the Typekit page:

https://typekit.com/fonts/source-sans-pro

On the specimens there, Source Sans looks terrible at almost any sensible body text size in Firefox on Windows XP.

However, I was comparing those results with samples of Open Sans from Google Web Fonts, which look much better. Apologies if this wasn’t a fair comparison.




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