unclear fonts
hi,
some fonts on some web pages are jagged, with bold vertical lines and hard to read in FF 43.0.4 [see the attached screenshots comparing FF and IE11].
texts in other apps and in the whole win7 enviroment look fine and crisp. i don't use and don't want to use the win7 feature "ClearType": it solves the firefox issue [i.e. the texts become smooth], but a system-wide use makes the fonts in other apps+win7 somewhat bold...
i've googled for hours and tried the following, but it didn't help: - display driver is up to date - uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available" - set "webgl.disabled" to true.
thank you very much for help.
panda
system info:
win7 pro N
FF 43.0.4
FF troubleshooting information:
Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce GT 630
Adapter Drivers nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Adapter RAM 2048
Asynchronous Pan/Zoom none
Device ID 0x0fc2
Direct2D Enabled true
DirectWrite Enabled true (6.2.9200.17461)
Driver Date 6-4-2014
Driver Version 9.18.13.3325
GPU #2 Active false
GPU Accelerated Windows 3/3 Direct3D 11 (OMTC)
Subsys ID 0936103c
Supports Hardware H264 Decoding No; Failed to create H264 decoder
Vendor ID 0x10de
WebGL Renderer Google Inc. -- ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0)
windowLayerManagerRemote true
AzureCanvasBackend direct2d 1.1
AzureContentBackend direct2d 1.1
AzureFallbackCanvasBackend cairo
AzureSkiaAccelerated 0
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What font uses Firefox when this happens?
You can right-click and select "Inspect Element" to open the Inspector (3-bar Menu button or Tools > Web Developer) with this element selected. You can check the font used for selected text in the Font tab in the right pane of the Inspector.
cor-el, thanks for your interest. here is the complete font info:
Open Sans remote
http://fonts.gstatic.com/s/opensans/v13/u-WUoqrET9fUeobQW7jkRVtXRa8TVwTICgirnJhmVJw.woff2 (woff2)
Used as: "Open Sans"
@font-face {
font-family: "Open Sans"; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; src: local("Open Sans"), local("OpenSans"), url("http://fonts.gstatic.com/s/opensans/v13/u-WUoqrET9fUeobQW7jkRVtXRa8TVwTICgirnJhmVJw.woff2") format("woff2");
}