Hope you don't have any Win XP users.

I am aware of the rendering problems of the (mostly non Clear Type enabled) windows XP font rendering. But, if you would have looked at Vollkorn in Windows XP before answering, you would have discovered that it renders good with Clear Type enabled, OK with the standard font smoothing, and a bit less good of Georgia without font smoothing at all.

Vollkorn has been probably hinted for screen and its letterforms shapes and high line–height help a lot with screen rendering. That said, your point is generally valid if you mean you have to look at the fonts in various systems and settings before using it on the web, but is not a universal rule valid for all fonts and all people.

Vollkorn means wholemeal, whole grain. It's a very nice "rustic-style Antiqua" not something i would call elegant in a traditional way. The "drastic" bold refers to that nicely.

How about Ubuntu?

I’m looking at Vollkorn on XP now and I’m not sure what you mean. Good is relative, right.

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

frode frank

this is a quick comparison beet wen georgia and vollkorn on windows xp with clear type, standard anti aliasing and no anti aliasing at all. Honestly I don't see differences that make me hope no one of the user is on windows XP.

http://db.tt/2FPz1Twk

http://db.tt/lGRIoQYy

http://db.tt/3jBRT0h2

poms

thanks for your input. Maybe "elegance" wasn't the best word in this case (not native english speaker). As I said I need something straightforward but not too much cold or rational/functional. Vollkorn seemed to be enough clear but not too anonymous (the bold is quite heavy) or cold (the italic has a warm feeling to me) . I will think more about it.

Thanks again

charles_e

as I said I don't think XP is a problem here, not for the user base but for the font rendering in itself. In addition the W3C stats are the stats of the W3C website not general web traffic stats. From what I know most of the current XP user base is in countries where there is no audience for my projects; being W3C a global site on average it register more XP user than websites visited only in certain countries. Also worth nothing that in the W3c stats you can see as XP is losing half of its share per year.

Here's an image of Vollkorn in Greyscale. On my Win PC this looks pretty bad. Both the spacing and the rendering of similar features suffers. That's just my opinion, anyway.

Well,

it's a lot different from the one on my XP installation (the above linked screenshots). I will look into that.

PS: The gamma differences in Windows and OSX can make samples like these misleading. Another factor that can have a pretty dramatic effect on Greyscale rendering is the brightness and constrast settings on your Windows computer.