Google web fonts looks ok on Ubuntu 10, weird on Windows XP

Question

I'm having a weird problem with fonts on my website : I'm using Google's Web Font API, and it looks fine in every browser on Ubuntu, but looks weird in every browser on Windows XP, except IE8. I didn't have a chance to test it on Win7 yet.

My website on Ubuntu's Firefox 3.6.16 :

My website on Windows' Firefox 3.6.13 :

What is going on ? Is this simply a ClearType problem ?

Answer 1

Yeah, it's just the way the platform and browser is rendering the typeface. The only way to see a more consistent way of rendering throughout browsers and platforms would be to use Cufón.

Answer 2

It looks like that font's GASP records are indicating it shouldn't be anti-aliased below a certain size. I guess Linux/Ubuntu don't honor that.