Firefox font issues 99 Responses

Last post: 2 years ago | Thread started: Oct 3, 06, 10:07 a.m.

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• Point5

  I organized some fonts in Linotype FontExplorer X yesterday and now I'm seeing aliased type in FF on sites like NT and Pixelsurgeon.

  

  I peeped the css for NT and I do have the standard Verdana, Helv., and Arial turned on already, so I can't figuer out the issue. When I go to CNN.com the san-serif fonts display fine. Anyone have a clue as to what the problem is?

  Oct 3, 06, 10:07 a.m. – Permalink

• UndoUndo

  not sure why it would have changed anythig but check options>content>fonts>advanced and the tick box 'allow sites to choose their own fonts' or something similar

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 06, 10:51 a.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  are you sure it's just firefox? font smoothing is an OS thing, system prefs > appearance > turn off font smoothing for sizes smaller than x

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 06, 10:52 a.m. – Permalink

• Weyland

  If you're on a PC it seems like Cleartype has been disabled (XP built in antialiasing)

  desktop properties > appearance > Effects > Use following method to smooth ... Cleartype

  Hope this helped

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 06, 10:59 a.m. – Permalink

• Point5

  I appreciate the input guys. I've looked at everything, and the problem still persists. When I look at NT on Safari, it's fine, yet still crappy on FF. I have no idea why it's happening like this. The FF prefs were already checked to allow sites to choose their own fonts as well. I don't particularly hate aliased text, but the way it's displaying at this size is absolutely horrible.

  I'll keep hackin away and see what happens; I'll post my findings if they're positive :(

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 06, 11:12 a.m. – Permalink

• Point5

  Well, I've discovered that the issue seems to be occuring on sites where Verdana is listed first in the type order for the style. Sites like cnn that have it listed with Arial or Helvetica first are fine. I do have Verdana turned on, so now I gotta figure out what the hell makes this a FF specific issue with that font in particular… maybe I should turn it off?…

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 06, 11:21 a.m. – Permalink

• Point5

  Man, even when I turn off Verdana, or make a font like Times the default font for the browser, it shows up aliased…

  *shakes fist in anger at the big Firey Fox in the sky

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 06, 11:28 a.m. – Permalink

• Point5

  OK, I walked away from my desk for about 20 minutes, hung a dry erase board, and now I'm back… and now it appears that NT is using a Helv. condensed of some sort! Obviously it took a while for something to process that Verdana is not available; and I haven't restarted my browser recently either. This is strange. Sorry for all the posts in here (not that anyone is reading this at all) but I'm just trying to make some sens of this.

  

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  Dog-earOct 3, 06, 12:04 p.m. – Permalink

• Point5

  just an FYI for anyone with similar problems… yesterday afternoon, my fonts crapped out again in my FF browser. Just now this morning I opened Linotype FontExplorer X and wne to Tools>Clean System Fonts Caches and that solved the problem!

  

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  Dog-earOct 4, 06, 9:21 a.m. – Permalink

• paraselene

  firefox is dropping the ball a lot lately. it needs to get its head out its arse.

  glad to hear you sorted that font thing, though.

  

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  Dog-earOct 4, 06, 9:28 a.m. – Permalink