Closed simonpoole closed 1 year ago
Yes, that looks unpleasant. Which OS do you use (looks like Windows?)? It seems as you use a rather extreme setting of subpixel rendering or hinting but I'm not sure.
This is how it looks on my screen (Ubuntu 16.04 FHD display):
W10 in this case (1600*1200). For completness sake Firefox with standard settings.
There might be some font rendering settings I can tweak via CSS. I'll try that. If the problem does not go away we might have to see if we need to find a different font. That would be unfortunate as I like it. :)
I have switched to a slightly bolder variant to avoid the rendering problem on Windows.
Bold looks OK, but there are still problems - look at the top of the "e" (both normal and italic):
This is Firefox and Seamonkey on Windows 7 with 125% text.
I'll have to check if I can use a slightly bolder variant for the normal text to avoid the aggressive subpixel hinting on Windows.
Maybe we could also try to tweak the font-size a bit. As an example, changing the value from 1.18em
to 1.15em
looks much better here (on Win10, Chrome).
1.18em:
1.15em:
IMHO the current font is a bit of a regression compared to before the style broke and @jdlrobson thankfully fixed it. At least for me the weirdness extends to the non-bold parts too, so maybe a new issue would be appropriate (I'm not quite sure why I didn't close this one way back).
On OSMF-Wiki the osmftext
font renders awfully in Opera[^1] or Vivaldi[^2] on my Win10. There is indeed ClearType activated – but tuned such that it deemed to me all other fonts render optimally.
To be able to read the OSMF Board documents I resort to apply a UserCSS changing font as a workaround…
[^1]: Opera as of any recent version, any recent Chromium engine, lets say 98 to developer's 102
[^2]: Vivaldi e.g. version 5.3, Chromium 100
I was recently annoyed enough about the font rendering to do a posting on community and was made aware of this existing issue. (Win 10, 100% scaling, various browsers)
I am able to reproduce the issue with the font on the fontdrop.info website, which also identified the font as Palanquin. Some font sizes show extreme bad aliasing. I used the woff variant there. I assume woff2 behaves similar.
By using a more recent of the font (a modification date three years more recent), I can no longer reproduce the issue there. Could you please update the self-hosted font to a more recent version? You can get a version for self-hosting here: https://google-webfonts-helper.herokuapp.com/fonts/palanquin?subsets=latin
Just noticed this...
Could someone please retest? I have switched the font to the latest release of Palanquin. Personally I don't like the font, but kept it for now.
I have had confirmation that the font issue has now been resolved on Windows. Closing, feel free to re-open if issue is still observed.
My eyes thank you for making the page readable again. I explicitly confirm here on the issue tracker that it is resolved.
The bold variant of the font seems to be very "uneven" in stroke width which makes it rather unpleasant from a visual appearance pov. This is very visible in the "Tab" and section headings.