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Dear Matt, Could you please use any font other than Source Sans Pro[1]? It looks terrible on at least one major desktop operating system.[2] [1] https://www.g
by 3825 13y ago
Dear Matt,
Could you please use any font other than Source Sans Pro[1]? It looks terrible on at least one major desktop operating system.[2]
[1] https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Source+Sans+Pro
[2] http://i.imgur.com/9gOuTdH.png http://i.imgur.com/9gOuTdH.png
- arkitaip 13y agoLooks pretty nice on my box. Maybe you need to configure your font settings?
- PetitPrince 13y agoThat's because he use Chrome on Windows, who doesn't render webfont well due to the usage of GDI instead of DirectWrite in the Windows version: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692 https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=137692
- 3825 13y agoYou're right. It even looks better on IE8. http://i.imgur.com/xrhfJGp.png http://i.imgur.com/xrhfJGp.png Here's a screenshot of nightly with a similar issue. http://i.imgur.com/HP02e5b.png http://i.imgur.com/HP02e5b.png Even this, with the font stripped out looks better http://i.imgur.com/6KB2iuG.png http://i.imgur.com/6KB2iuG.png
- username111 13y agoAre you on XP? (I ask because it looks like you don't have any anti-aliasing on). If you adjust your cleartype settings (or turn it on in XP) it will look a bit more normal.
- 3825 13y agoOn Windows 7 but yes, you were right. I got a new machine and the cleartype was not turned on yet. It looks much better now. http://i.imgur.com/73Ic6w0.png http://i.imgur.com/73Ic6w0.png I appreciate your help.
- brusch 13y agoI'm using Chrome on Windows and it looks fine. Has to be some other setting he messed up.
- michalstanko 13y agoLooks like you need to turn on ClearType.
- 3825 13y agoI did. That was my problem. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5779561 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5779561