I agree 100%.

When I see horridly aliased fonts like that, I always assume it's some kind of Apple thing that just doesn't look right elsewhere.

Is that it?

http://imgur.com/69eTV.png

I use the latest Chrome on Windows 7 and Ubuntu.

Welcome to the world of crappy font rendering for the majority of browsers. Even with @font-face in the wild, it's going to be years before we finally see properly rendered fonts for our end-users.

I think I might just disable Typekit for Windows. Please hold, researching.

Something that's helped us: adding "text-shadow:0 1px 1px #FFF;". Particularly useful with webkit. Adding the drop shadow ratchets up the perceived anti-aliasing, even if the text is on top of a white background.

It looks OK in Firefox on Ubuntu:

http://imgur.com/wYEI8.png (760K)

This was exactly what I first thought. To make things worse, I hate Apple, and so I immediately associated your product with all the problems Apple has caused me.

Are you in Windows? We're using Typekit to load some fonts and some setups aren't particularly good at rendering fonts. :/

Some fonts are also specially designed to render under specific font rendering engines (and will look crappy elsewhere, or just not as good).

Yeah, I'm using Windows 7/Chrome.