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Safari font rendering issues

As you can see below, the Texta-Light font in Chrome appears completely different with Safari. Chrome displays the font as I like but Safari's rendering on OS X and iOS looks too thin. The Safari image below is taken on iOS and as you can see for some reason the font appears as if there is two bits of text present.

I've looked for a solution but found nothing which works. I tried using -webkit-font-smoothing: subpixel-antialiased; but according to this question, the code isn't working anymore.

Chrome:

Chrome font-rendering

Safari on iOS:

Safari font-rendering

Here is the code for the images above:

h2 {
    font-family: 'Texta-Light', sans-serif;
    font-size: 3.5em;
    line-height: 1.2em;
}

Is there any solution to this?

Solution

  • Safari has an issue with fonts. The easiest fix for the duplicate text issue is clarifying the font-weight:

    font-weight: 400;

    Using Lucho's Javascript's text stroke solution along with specifying font-weight will make your text the same as it is on Chrome.