poor font rendering in ffox on f18

[Tim]

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.

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