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Did the forums get a font change?

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Disabled it now, but somehow it still looks better on my tablet, probably because of scaling (and possibly older version of Chromium).

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I downloaded an extension called stylebot and had to make custom css changes for when the font looks weird. Seems like a problem with rendering of the "Helvetica" / "Helvetica Neue" font.
 
Shlong said:
I downloaded an extension called stylebot and had to make custom css changes for when the font looks weird. Seems like a problem with rendering of the "Helvetica" / "Helvetica Neue" font.
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That's what I'd read too when I started looking at this issue a few weeks ago but never saw a difference. I will try stylebot to see if it helps.
 
Shlong said:
I downloaded an extension called stylebot and had to make custom css changes for when the font looks weird. Seems like a problem with rendering of the "Helvetica" / "Helvetica Neue" font.
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I tried that and it wasn't ideal at all. It was better but the Anandtech homepage would push the wearables heading to a second line ruining the formatting.

Switched to Firefox and while I think chrome is a bit faster, it's really only fractions of a second difference. The extensions I used are available for both browsers too.
 
cmdrdredd said:
I tried that and it wasn't ideal at all. It was better but the Anandtech homepage would push the wearables heading to a second line ruining the formatting.

Switched to Firefox and while I think chrome is a bit faster, it's really only fractions of a second difference. The extensions I used are available for both browsers too.
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Yeah I use multiple browsers for testing different security things already but this is probably going to push me back into using Firefox again as my primary. Google does this shit constantly and you see dozens of complaints and bug reports and it never gets better or even acknowledged. When you need to install an extension to render font properly as it is done in every other browser that exists it's probably time to make a change. Chrome has always been a bit hinky with fonts but this is basically unusable now. Glad I kept my Chrome 35 install files.
 
Luckily I'm not tied to a browser. As long as it isn't IE and there's adblock and a smooth scroll extension I'm good.
 
I prefer the new font/font rendering actually. To me the forums no longer look like I'm slightly intoxicated when I'm reading. Now I actually CAN be slightly intoxicated and still read the fuzzy shit Chrome used to render on this site.
 
There must not be a single chrome dev with a windows machine. Otherwise they would have to at some point noticed "Hey this looks like shit!"
 
jpiniero said:
Firefox has the same issue, at least from when I tested it. I have it turned off. Mozilla tried fixing the issue and then basically ignored it.
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No it doesn't. Firefox uses directwrite and looks fine. Chrome just has improper formatting for some pages and forums. I can post a screenshot later to prove it, but I am sure you can find numerous forum posts and such to say the same thing. Chrome doesn't render fonts properly, and their directwrite implementation isn't spacing letters correctly on some sites. I was happy with chrome when I was ignorant of this fact. Now that I see it via the update, I switched. Milliseconds faster rendering and better HTML 5 support are meaningless right now so chrome has no real advantage to make me live with it.
 
Kaido said:
OK, comments to the rescue:

1. Open a new tab and type in "chrome:flags" (without quotes) in the search bar
2. Do a Find (CTRL+F) for "DirectWrite" (Disable DirectWrite Windows) & Enable it
3. Close all of your Chrome browser (restart Chrome)

My forum fonts are back to normal now :thumbsup:
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This worked for me too. Have the selection area turn white (seems backwards) and reload Chrome.


Jim
 
Kaido said:
OK, comments to the rescue:

1. Open a new tab and type in "chrome:flags" (without quotes) in the search bar
2. Do a Find (CTRL+F) for "DirectWrite" (Disable DirectWrite Windows) & Enable it
3. Close all of your Chrome browser (restart Chrome)

My forum fonts are back to normal now :thumbsup:
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posrep
 
Kaido said:
OK, comments to the rescue:

1. Open a new tab and type in "chrome:flags" (without quotes) in the search bar
2. Do a Find (CTRL+F) for "DirectWrite" (Disable DirectWrite Windows) & Enable it
3. Close all of your Chrome browser (restart Chrome)

My forum fonts are back to normal now :thumbsup:
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Still not working for me. If I up the zoom factor to 110% the sidebar on the left of forums looks ok but the threads are huge. If I knock it back to 100% the threads look ok but the forum shortcuts on the left are scrunched up.

Bleh.
 
vi edit said:
Still not working for me. If I up the zoom factor to 110% the sidebar on the left of forums looks ok but the threads are huge. If I knock it back to 100% the threads look ok but the forum shortcuts on the left are scrunched up.

Bleh.
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What OS are you on, did you try a reboot, and did you verify that the setting stayed changed in the flags section?
 
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