03/17/2014 07:49 AM, Tim wrote:
> Allegedly, on or about 16 March 2014, Mike Wright sent:
>
>> On Chrome it displays perfectly (or falls back to sans-serif???) but
>> on firefox it is extremely difficult to read. Using firebug I can
>> force it to use sans-serif, which does display nicely.
>>
>> Here's the link to a screen capture:
>>
>>
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19486401/neue.png
>>
>> that shows the leading vertical edges of n,u,h,p don't display; x is
>> also broken.
>>
>
> That looks like trying to display a font using lines less than one pixel
> wide, and only the anti-aliasing being visible.
>
> Do you have your screen DPI set correctly? You're not using a faked up
> DPI to change font sizing, like some people do. That's the sort of
> problem I'd expect to see from doing stunts like that.
>
Thanks for responding Tim.
I haven't mucked with the display settings. Xorg.0.log says my DPI is
96x96.
The monitor is a Hanspree Hi221D, 1680x1050.
Side note: this is the only font I've seen act like this. (Not so sure I
like the idea of a webpage pulling in a font family when we have perfectly
fine fonts provided by fedora ;)
That web page is using a downloadable font (you can check using the Firefox
devtools inspector: right click on the text -> select "inspect element",
and open the Fonts tab in the inspector window that'll appear).
You can force all web pages to use your own fonts in Firefox, first open
Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> Advanced and disable "Allow pages to
choose their own fonts.... ".
Note that this may prevent some pages from disabling correctly as there's a
new trend of using "icon fonts", see