# Font rendering inconsistency

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/font-rendering-inconsistency/179637>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 21, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/font-rendering-inconsistency/179637 "2006-02-21T22:35:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![marc0047](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@marc0047](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/marc0047)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/font-rendering-inconsistency/179637/1 "2006-02-21T22:35:11Z")

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Am I hallucinating: I am using the DIN (FF) font in Adobe Illustrator to do a flash mockup for a client. I have been showing the client snapshots of type in Illustrator, which look crisp and well rendered.

However, when I use the DIN typeface in Flash as I have mocked them up in Illustrator, there are tiny differences that make the type look significantly uglier in Flash. The body copy is snapped at whole decimal points, and they have the same specifications as they do in Illustrator.

Yet some of the stems look fuzzy and pale, and it even looks just a tiny bit scragglier.

Does Flash really render type uglier than Adobe’s applications? Is the only solution to use image versions of the type? (I hope not, as I like to give the user the capability to select text!)