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linerman

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Registered: 2021-02-16

Posts: 81

[SOLVED] Github default display font

Hi,

Few days ago, I have noticed that github page display ugly font in my firefox browser.
When I unchecked in firefox preference "let webpages use different fonts that set here", everything is fine.
(But then on some other webpages fonts look strange for me.)

I assume it means that I have not got some fonts installed which github uses as default. So when I unchecked that preference option, browser uses my own hard-set fonts.

How to check which font I am missing, just to revert to default settings?

Last edited by linerman (2021-04-24 08:33:08)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 58,347

Re: [SOLVED] Github default display font

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder…
Using the webinspector that is in every browser, one can see that github uses

SFMono-Regular,Consolas,Liberation Mono,Menlo,monospace;

for code (assuming that's what you're talking about, because "github page display ugly font" is pretty much the opposite of specific…) so if you have none of the named fonts, it ends up usign your default monospace font (which you can override in the browser against the system)

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linerman

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Registered: 2021-02-16

Posts: 81

Re: [SOLVED] Github default display font

Ugly is in the eye of the beholder…

Correct, de gustibus non disputandum est.
Anyway, I used webinspector and installed missing fonts.
That was easy. Thanx as usual seth!

Last edited by linerman (2021-04-24 08:33:26)