poor font rendering in ffox on f18

[Mike Wright]

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 ;)