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Preycon

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From: México, D.F.

Registered: 2009-02-14

Posts: 64

Blurry fonts on the web

Hello, I'm struggling, trying to figure why some sites like reddit or twitter show the fonts strange, like blurry or 'bolder'.

For example, the fonts look awesome on the Arch forums:

https://i.imgur.com/pTLSQsG.png

But on twitter it looks like they where 'bold'

https://i.imgur.com/r6FyQoc.png

Same on reddit, don't know why

https://i.imgur.com/NkAQtE3.png

Tried everything related to hinting, fonts.conf, etc, nothing changes, help appreciated.

seth

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From: Won't reply 2 private help req

Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 77,063

Re: Blurry fonts on the web

Use the web inspector to see which font is actually used (the one on Titter clearly differs from the forum one, look at the "g")
reddit seems to be the same font but the difference there is probably just the local contrast (black & white) the font size and maybe subpixel rendering

nb. that FF & chromium tend to ignore fontconfig settings, check their wikis for configuration options.

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