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There is something disturbingly wrong with how that font is rendering in Firefox 4. Completely unreadable.
by burgerbrain 15y ago
There is something disturbingly wrong with how that font is rendering in Firefox 4. Completely unreadable.
- JonnieCache 15y agoLooks fine on FF4/win7 here.
- thristian 15y agoPreferences → Content → Fonts & Colors → Advanced → Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above Untick that box, set the Firefox defaults to something attractive like Droid Sans, and rejoice at how readable the Web becomes.
- aerique 15y agoThird thing I do after a fresh FF install! While you're at it play with "Minimum font size" as well if small fonts have ever bothered you.
- ars 15y agoTurn off the stylesheet and it's readable again, and you don't have to change any persistent settings. View → Page Style → No Style
- thristian 15y agoTurning off the stylesheet on every page as I browse the web would be a hassle; much better to change a setting once and never have to worry about it again. About the only pages I've found that aren't improved by enforcing a sensible font-choice are pages designed to showcase CSS3 font embedding - and those are pretty rare. I do wish browsers would have a per-host "allow custom fonts" setting, alongside the tradition per-host "allow images" and "allow cookies" settings. With the potential security implications of downloadable fonts, it seems only sensible - but nobody seems interested in implementing such a thing. :(
- ori_b 15y agoTurning off the settings persistently, and you don't have to turn off stylesheets ever again. And pages suddenly start respecting your preferences!
- shrikant 15y agoI regret that I have but one upvote to give - thank you for saving my Internet.
- imurray 15y agoI do this, but warn that it sometimes leads to sites breaking: text spilling out of boxes or getting obscured by running under other elements. Web-designers: please make your sites robust to people picking their own fonts, and also robust to users enforcing a minimum font size!
- Stormbringer 15y agoThis is exactly why anyone that says they are a web designer - yet does all their work in some 'pixel perfect' tool like Macromedia (or whatever the 'cool kids' use these days) is just deluding themselves.
- ComputerGuru 15y agoNot just Firefox. For a "design" company, they sure have no idea what pretty looks like!
- citricsquid 15y agoThis is pretty, it's just not functional.
- shib71 15y agoThe light grey on white is not helpful either.
- dqminh 15y agoif you have Chrome, install Google Font Previewer, choose Droid Sans
- norova 15y agoI started picking at my LCD when I read the word "D.Dress" I thought the period between the D's was a speck of grime. >_>
- spullara 15y agoClick the Reader button. One of the best features of Safari :)
- deathwarmedover 15y agoWoman in bikini on HN / Comment only on the link's typography
- Raphael 15y agoMust be for Mac. OS X makes all text bold.
- ugh 15y agoNope. It looks horrible in Safari. It actually looks better in IE9 since Windows traditionally employs much more aggressive anti-aliasing and hinting (something that’s smaller than one pixel or between pixels simply gets bumped up to one pixel and forced onto the pixel grid). The font would be alright if our screens had twice or so the pixel density they have today but fonts with features much smaller than one pixel just don’t look good.
- eswat 15y agoRaleway is such a thin typeface that it pretty much renders horribly as text on any browser. Bad choice for body text…