Google Chrome Font Rendering
Solution 1:
This was a bug introduced while simplifying the Mac font back-end. This question is referenced in crbug.com/435822 , and the issue itself was fixed with crbug.com/421412 . I do not believe that this bug made it into a stable release (this time).
The issue was that '-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased' was being ignored. For those who don't know, this is a Mac specific property which is used not to turn on and off subpixel rendering (as one would expect from the name), but to control the fake-bolding which CoreGraphics applies to subpixel anti-aliased glyphs. At larger sizes this fake-bolding is quite noticeable, so it is desirable to disable it on any non-body text. For more details one can read a thread on the www-style list "Text anti-aliasing on the Mac", particularly this post. The discussion there came about due to the last time this broke and made it to stable in Chrome 22.
Should this ever happen again (Mac only text seems too bold), one should open a Chromium bug and mention that '-webkit-font-smoothing:antialiased' seems to be on the fritz again.
Solution 2:
Chrome (almost) always has font problems in Beta. Enter chrome://flags in the address bar and enable disable directwrite, restart the browser, Everything should look fine now.
BTW in my experience, these font problems are always fixed in the next stable release, most probably FB will also look.. Bolder.
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