Wait a minute... FONT FACE...

[iyeru42]

The font face used for phpBB3 is not a pixel-based font, and gets rather "edgy" or rather "rough" when the size tag "smalls" the font down. (Check my signature) We should have a font-face BBCode tag that could correct this.

this topic (phpBB.com) has what it SHOULD look like, notice the difference in smoothness.

[Highway of Life]

Looks fine to me...

Your sig

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Of course, I'm using a Mac. So I'm not going to see what you PCee

[iyeru42]

Looks fine to me...

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Of course, I'm using a Mac. So I'm not going to see what you PCee

That'll also happen if you're using IE7, but not if you're using FiFox / Opera on a PC.

[dhn]

Your signature in IE7 (top), Opera (right), and Firefox (bottom):

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Does look correct for me in all cases. Perhaps you don't have system-wide font smoothing enabled?

It is really not a good practice to use pixel / static width fonts in web design. If you think the font is too small, you have the choice to just enlarge it inside your browser (ctrl and + or ctrl + scrollwheel).

[NNO-Stephen]

Looks fine to me...

screenshot1.jpeg

Of course, I'm using a Mac. So I'm not going to see what you PCee

that's how it looks for me too. looks perfectly acceptable.

For reference, in sys prefs my font smoothing is on medium, and it's disabled for font sizes 8 and smaller. so, take that for what you will.

and I just had to point out the irony here of someone with such a pixilated FF avatar would complain about the text haha

[iyeru42]

Your signature in IE7 (top), Opera (right), and Firefox (bottom):

sig.png

Does look correct for me in all cases. Perhaps you don't have system-wide font smoothing enabled?

It is really not a good practice to use pixel / static width fonts in web design. If you think the font is too small, you have the choice to just enlarge it inside your browser (ctrl and + or ctrl + scrollwheel).

I don't have system-wide smoothing in the first place methinks. If you can direct me to the option in a default install of WinXP, that'd be great.

[Nicholas the Italian]

I don't have system-wide smoothing in the first place methinks. If you can direct me to the option in a default install of WinXP, that'd be great.

Might be this: desktop > properties > look/appearance (don't know in English) > effects > cleartype
I have cleartype turned off and see your signature quite bad; if I turn it on it's better (but then everything else is worse ).

[the_dan]

Looks fine for me with Cleartype on in WinXP.