This has been a hot-button topic over 2012 — font smoothing and specifically Google Chrome’s rendering of it, specifically using -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased. A few months back, a Google Chrome rollout “broke” it, though really designers and developers (myself included) have been using it incorrectly.
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