New issue
Advanced search Search tips

Issue 639452 link

Starred by 5 users
Status: Archived
Owner: ----
Closed: May 2018
Components:
EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: ----
OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



Sign in to add a comment

font very poor without cleartype and font smoothing (roboto!)

Reported by bau...@gmail.com, Aug 19 2016 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.70 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. disable cleartype and font smoothing
2. go to plus.google.com

What is the expected behavior?
if chrome can't display roboto without this very bad render, use integrated system font

What went wrong?
font are very poor! more 2years and never solved!

Did this work before? No 

Chrome version: 53.0.2785.70  Channel: beta
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: disabled
bad render chrome.png
60.6 KB View Download

Comment 1 by bau...@gmail.com, May 2 2017 

and now it's same with chrome settings!! new regression
chrome_2017-05-02_17-34-56.png
13.5 KB View Download
Project Member

Comment 2 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, May 3 2018

Status: Archived (was: Unconfirmed)
Issue has not been modified or commented on in the last 365 days, please re-open or file a new bug if this is still an issue.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

Comment 3 Deleted

Comment 4 by term...@gmail.com, May 4 2018 

Scratch my previous comment 3. Google search seems to be using Arial now. I stand by my comment that using Arial is a better default font choice because it looked good across all OS font rendering setting combinations, but Roboto does not.

Comment 5 by term...@gmail.com, May 7 2018 

Actually it seems to use Roboto or Arial arbitrarily. Here's a screenshot with Roboto it looks terrible if font smoothing is disabled.
bad font.PNG
41.0 KB View Download

Comment 6 by bau...@gmail.com, May 7 2018 

Chrome settings use roboto (screenshot); and G+,calendar,photos,drive.. material design.
Now I use extension 'uBlock Origin' to block web font; but more site use font to display icon, select box...
roboto.png
2.9 MB View Download
►

Sign in to add a comment