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I get the same in every browser I try on Linux. I don't get the point of this. I really don't. While far from perfect, web fonts have largely been a solved pro

by laumars 10y ago

I get the same in every browser I try on Linux. I don't get the point of this. I really don't. While far from perfect, web fonts have largely been a solved problem for a while now, so why are Google reinventing this wheel? This seems to happen all the time with the web; people taking old ideas and reinventing them again and again, in yet more bloated ways, breaking things for millions. </grumpy rant>

kevinali1 10y ago
I don't think they're reinventing anything. Google Fonts has been offering webfonts for many years. All they did here was change the website.
- laumars 10y ago
  They've changed their "typeface rendering engine" (for want a better description). Hence why many people are now unable to see their typefaces in full when once they could.
pmontra 10y ago
Not every browser on Ubuntu 16.04: Firefox displays those boxes but Vivaldi, Opera and Chromium work fine.
- laumars 10y ago
  Google might have fixed some of the issues now - it was a day ago many of the bug were raised. Just for reference, I was running ArchLinux with the Infinality font bungles.
  - pmontra 10y ago
    It's fixed now. Thanks! I didn't have the infinality fonts. I wonder what the bug was.