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Oops. Landing page font is almost unreadable in Chrome Version 30.0.1599.101 (Windows XP)

by codegeek 13y ago

uno7 13y ago
Looks great in FF windows 7
- Ygg2 13y ago
  Looks the same in FF as in Chrome (missing parts).
pistle 13y ago
"Who dragged a pencil eraser down my screen???!!! Oh... WTF?"
RALaBarge 13y ago
I came here to report the same thing. http://i.imgur.com/Htq6JIK.png http://i.imgur.com/Htq6JIK.png
martin-adams 13y ago
Yup Chrome not so good, Firefox seems fine.
BadassFractal 13y ago
Is that the infamous issue that requires you to reorder font type imports in your CSS? I've seen this many times on Win7 in Chrome.
edwardy20 13y ago
Chrome works for me. (Version 31.0.1650.63 on Ubuntu 13.10)
- dangrossman 13y ago
  It's only an issue on Windows because Chrome uses GDI to render text there, instead of DirectWrite like Firefox/IE use.
  - maxerickson 13y ago
    A lot of the text looks bad in Firefox on XP.
    - dangrossman 13y ago
      Because Firefox also used GDI on XP. It doesn't on newer versions of Windows.
      - SiVal 13y ago
        What's the workaround for this problem? This is the first I've heard of it, and it looks pretty bad.
        34otkpgk35p5okg 13y ago
        Dump windows.
        buugs 13y ago
        Test on windows? A lot of thin fonts look bad in Windows especially chrome. So you could probably make a safe bet that if a font is thin on OSX then it will be much thinner (sometimes unreadable) on Windows. If you want to use thin fonts only use them for the titles (but even here it looks like that causes problems).
franksmule 13y ago
Me too Chrome Version 32.0.1700.41 m Aura Win8 - Hard to read fonts
Kronopath 13y ago
Same here on Windows 7: http://i.imgur.com/i5GwqIN.png?1 http://i.imgur.com/i5GwqIN.png?1 "Variablcs"?
34otkpgk35p5okg 13y ago
If you use Windows, you deserve it.
jahewson 13y ago
The solution to this problem is to serve your web fonts as SVG to Chrome on Windows, or hint your web font with ttfautohint.
Raphmedia 13y ago
Pretty bad for a product aimed at front-end guys.

Oops. Landing page font is almost unreadable in Chrome Version 30.0.1599.101 (Windows XP)

uno7 13y ago

Looks great in FF windows 7

Ygg2 13y ago
Looks the same in FF as in Chrome (missing parts).

pistle 13y ago

"Who dragged a pencil eraser down my screen???!!! Oh... WTF?"

RALaBarge 13y ago

I came here to report the same thing. http://i.imgur.com/Htq6JIK.png http://i.imgur.com/Htq6JIK.png

martin-adams 13y ago

Yup Chrome not so good, Firefox seems fine.

BadassFractal 13y ago

Is that the infamous issue that requires you to reorder font type imports in your CSS? I've seen this many times on Win7 in Chrome.

edwardy20 13y ago

Chrome works for me. (Version 31.0.1650.63 on Ubuntu 13.10)

dangrossman 13y ago
It's only an issue on Windows because Chrome uses GDI to render text there, instead of DirectWrite like Firefox/IE use.
- maxerickson 13y ago
  A lot of the text looks bad in Firefox on XP.
  - dangrossman 13y ago
    Because Firefox also used GDI on XP. It doesn't on newer versions of Windows.
    - SiVal 13y ago
      What's the workaround for this problem? This is the first I've heard of it, and it looks pretty bad.
      - 34otkpgk35p5okg 13y ago
        Dump windows.
      - buugs 13y ago
        Test on windows? A lot of thin fonts look bad in Windows especially chrome. So you could probably make a safe bet that if a font is thin on OSX then it will be much thinner (sometimes unreadable) on Windows. If you want to use thin fonts only use them for the titles (but even here it looks like that causes problems).

franksmule 13y ago

Me too Chrome Version 32.0.1700.41 m Aura Win8 - Hard to read fonts

Kronopath 13y ago

Same here on Windows 7: http://i.imgur.com/i5GwqIN.png?1 http://i.imgur.com/i5GwqIN.png?1 "Variablcs"?

34otkpgk35p5okg 13y ago

If you use Windows, you deserve it.

jahewson 13y ago

The solution to this problem is to serve your web fonts as SVG to Chrome on Windows, or hint your web font with ttfautohint.

Raphmedia 13y ago

Pretty bad for a product aimed at front-end guys.