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#1 2015-01-08 07:39:05
- olive
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Broken fonts on CNN wesite
The font of most text in http://www.cnn.com appears broken (If yiu click on any title at least). A quick Google search have led me to people complaining from the same problem with a Chromebook. Given that chromebook run Linux (I think in a rather standard way) , it may be well general on Linux system. Maybe something with freetype or fontconfig? Do you experience the same problem? Is it hardware specific? (I have a radeon HD6570 with the free ati driver).
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#2 2015-01-08 07:55:16
- jasonwryan
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Re: Broken fonts on CNN wesite
Works for me: http://a.pomf.se/fuxueq.png
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#3 2015-01-08 08:30:20
- karol
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Re: Broken fonts on CNN wesite
Works fine for me. What browser are you using?
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#4 2015-01-08 15:53:35
- DarkCerberus
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Re: Broken fonts on CNN wesite
Certain fonts used to appear broken for me as well - until ttf-ms-fonts from AUR got installed and fixed it..... Do you have ttf-ms-fonts from AUR installed if not then try and install it.....
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#5 2015-01-08 17:34:49
- Lellebebbel
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Re: Broken fonts on CNN wesite
"hintfull" and webfonts don't mix too well (for example horizontal hinting isn't intended at all for CFF fonts [1]). Try hintslight. This really should be the default anyway these days.
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#6 2015-01-09 16:00:36
- olive
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Re: Broken fonts on CNN wesite
@Lellebebbel. You are right hintslight "solves" the problem. In my system hintfull seems to be the default. Anyway the overall quality of fonts with hintslight or even hintmedium is much poorer (My real dpi is about 106dpi, it may be better with high DPI display). And CNN is about the only website that give problems. So I think I will leave my settings as is.
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