With an insight into font technologies, this is actually very easy to solve.
Opentype fonts can contain TrueType or Postscript curves. These two have a very different approach to hinting: In TrueType the font is clever and the renderer is stupid (lots of very complicated hints in the font). In Postscript the font only has a few simple hints, and the renderer does the rest.
On Windows an unhinted TrueType text font looks horrid, an unhinted Postscript font is ok.
So, if you want an unhinted font, because you're using icons, just use TrueType shapes and don't hint them (like Font Awesome seems to do)
(This doesn't cover the native mac renderer, it ignores any hints and does all the work itself)
On Windows an unhinted TrueType text font looks horrid, an unhinted Postscript font is ok.
So, if you want an unhinted font, because you're using icons, just use TrueType shapes and don't hint them (like Font Awesome seems to do) (This doesn't cover the native mac renderer, it ignores any hints and does all the work itself)