Closed thepurpleblob closed 10 years ago
Does it happen on other sites with the same os and browser combo? I.e. go to fonts.google.com and preview it there.
No - it looks fine on fonts.google.com and the typecast page linked from there
The reason for this is that you only load the ttf and woff font. Only SVG fonts can be anti-aliased in Chrome/FireFox. Also, the Moodle font loader has some distinct issues, which makes loading these fonts from Google CDN recommended (also for speed reasons)
So where does this leave us? The font seems to be specified in quite a few places in the CSS. Would it be possible to have an option in the settings to disable web-fonts (if they are causing bother)?
we can add the SVG option- that's easy enough. I don't think it's a good option to load them directly from from CDN, unfortunately. For the vast majority of sites this is a good thing- but for schools with intranet-only access - of which there are a lot, and for schools in Mainland China (of which we have 7 clients) and other "restricted" locales CDNs actually make it worse.
Have you ever seen a page take 7 minutes to load because of DNS poisioning to fonts.google.com? Not fun :/
Moodle font loader issues shouldn't be worked around- they should be fixed.
@thepurpleblob: all CSS calls to the font should have a fallback, so if you remove the original declaration then the rest of the rules should just "work".
@TODO: add svg versions of fonts.
fixed by 75c7fdaa5e462b21224ad806234a46ed7fa3470b
The Roboto font looks very rough in some browsers. We had a number of reports and struggled to reproduce it but finally managed it in Windows 7 with Firefox V30.0.
It's easy to miss but the characters have little dots at the top.