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Nope. It looks horrible in Safari. It actually looks better in IE9 since Windows traditionally employs much more aggressive anti-aliasing and hinting (something that’s smaller than one pixel or between pixels simply gets bumped up to one pixel and forced onto the pixel grid).

The font would be alright if our screens had twice or so the pixel density they have today but fonts with features much smaller than one pixel just don’t look good.




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