CSS properties that affect type rendering

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Tim Brown reminds us that:

When it comes to type rendering on the web, there’s not much web designers can do.

He’s talking about literally how well type renders on the screen. There are a handful of properties that have significant effects on it, namely: font-size, color, -webkit-font-smoothing, and rotation. Rotation the one that can have the most detrimental effects:

…non-horizontal type is a veritable rendering wilderness.

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