[Resolved] Why does the font on Lemmy.world look like an eyesore?

Shady_Shiroe, 6 months ago

Bruh, I read “font” as “front” in title and was confused as to why you were listing your os specs

troyunrau, 6 months ago

Back in the day, debian used to render fonts badly to avoid a potential patent trap. Is that still a thing?

cmnybo, 6 months ago

All of the ClearType patents are expired, so that’s not an issue anymore. OP probably just has anti-aliasing turned off for some reason.

elbarto777, 6 months ago

No.

troyunrau, 6 months ago

I’m getting old, it seems. Kids these days probably don’t even have to configure modlines in XFree86. Sheesh. ;)

Tzeentch, 6 months ago

Are you using Firefox within a flatpak perchance ?

There seems to be a bug to it relating to use of bitmap fonts, you can fix the issue by disabling them via a config file in firefox’s fonts: bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621915

mmababes, 6 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Thank you, worked like a charm.

szelbi, 6 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I have a similar problem, but on Lemmy.zip (Lemmy.world looks fine). However, I am running Fedora Kinoite (immutable), where Firefox is not installed as Flatpak.

Main page of Lemmy.world

Main page of Lemmy.zip

LainOfTheWired, 6 months ago

You could start with using dark reader

otter, 6 months ago

I think Lemmy has themes too

I try to use the built in darkmode because dark reader got sluggish on some sites. Then I whitelist it on the sites that I need to

Jumuta, 6 months ago

i hated dark reader because it only works like 70% of the time, and often it doesn’t even look that good.

Shihali, 6 months ago

From your other responses, this is a system issue not a problem with the website.

Lemmy.world’s code has this font list for sans-serif: system-ui,-apple-system,“Segoe UI”,Roboto,“Helvetica Neue”,“Noto Sans”,“Liberation Sans”,Arial,sans-serif,“Apple Color Emoji”,“Segoe UI Emoji”,“Segoe UI Symbol”,“Noto Color Emoji”

I’d use the dev tools to check which font is being rendered. I’m on Windows so I get Segoe UI, which I find entirely acceptable.

mmababes, 6 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Fixed the issue by going tothis link (posted by @Tzeentch), bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621915, and implementing the solution mentioned by user, Pablo:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b36f50fc-62cd-4ef9-81ca-557c95c56f62.png

Kusimulkku, 6 months ago

Ah, flatpak shenanigans

j4k3, 6 months ago

Try a.lemmy.world

mmababes, 6 months ago

I’m having the same issue on other sites as well (not all but some). Does this have something to do with Frefox and MS fonts?

jelloeater85, 6 months ago

You can also try p.lemmy.world as well.

eager_eagle, 6 months ago

I use and recommend the Alexandrite UI a.lemmy.world

mmababes, 6 months ago

The font issue is affecting other websites I go to as well.

I installed the mscorefonts (sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer) but still having this issue.