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"Resistance in a Wire" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/resistance-in-a-wire
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Chrome OS font makes rho look squished and more like p #197

Closed KatieWoe closed 5 years ago

KatieWoe commented 5 years ago

The font that Chrome OS (71.0.3578.27) (Lovelace) shows rho as thinner and less curved, giving it the appearance of an odd p. Making issue per @jbphet for discussion. For https://github.com/phetsims/QA/issues/219#event-1953042350 Chrome OS: x screenshot Chrome on Win 10 to compare: rho

arouinfar commented 5 years ago

@KatieWoe @jbphet I think this is just an unfortunate side effect of how browsers choose to render text. I'm not particularly sure that we can do anything about it.

That said, I still think the rho looks more like a rho than a p. Given that the other variables in the equation use a serif font, a p would look more like this:

I don't think there's anything we need to do here, so closing.