I am using google webfonts and have come accross an issue with jagged and choppy font rendering in FF and chrome (IE11 renders them better).
Example can be found here: http://jsfiddle.net/PNYfR/
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Exo:300,400,700&subset=latin">
<p style="font-family: 'Exo', serif; font-weight: 400; font-style:normal; font-size:31px; color:white; background-color: #0085B2; line-heigth:1.42857; padding:100px">
Open Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp. This version contains the complete 897
</p>
I've read related questions, but any of them don't offer simple solutions for quick projects:
Google webfonts render choppy in Chrome on Windows
Well rendered webfont solution
Google webfonts and windows xp
To complicate a bit more, our designer is using Mac, which renders fonts correctly.
Questions:
Is there a list of google webfonts which render OK?
Or is there a quick step by step solution on how to get fonts render correctly?
And last, is there an alternative free webfont provider, which serves fonts OK?
I've found that downloading the fonts I want to use, converting them to .svg using font squirrel (web application, google it) and hosting them on the web server seems to solve the issue. In the code, place the .svg font link above the others and Chrome will/should grab that first.
These are the defaults for font smoothing (with google fonts too) I use that seem to do the trick. Hope this helps
*{
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
text-shadow:none;
text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;
}
Known issue for years (first mentions from 2010). Developers promissed to introduce fix maybe this year. Problem (as I understand) is with enabling directwrite (for for font smoothing) within sandbox.
More here
http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/23cuif/yet_another_chrome_webfont_aliasing_post_why_is/cgvs5j2
or here: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=331115
Edit: Using SVG font can help for someone, but SVG is too blured for me (compared with antialiased woff in Firefox).
Specifying the font-weight to 400 fixed the issue completely for me. I think it is intially 700, at least for h2 and h1...
h2 {
font-family: 'Lobster', cursive;
font-size: 23px;
color:#fff;
font-weight: 400;
}
Firefox still wins, but it is not jagged anymore
Just go reset all flags in Chrome. Type in chrome://flags in the URL address bar and click on the Reset All Flags to default button. That should be on the right hand side of the settings page. It worked for me. If it does not for you, you may try enabling the Aero visual settings of your computer (only if disabled) then reset the flags. If resolved, you may then switch off the aero visuals.
To access the aero visual settings in Win7, go to My Computer properties > Advanced system settings > System Properties > Advanced tab > Performance (Settings). From there, toggle the current setting back to 'Adjust for best appearance (it should check all boxes under it). After resetting all flags and the fonts are back to normal, you may choose to toggle it back to Adjust for best performance. That essentially unchecks all visual options.
Thanks,
Dong
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I have simple static page and I want to import a font. But the font displays very strange on Windows with Google Chrome browser. This font displays properly in other operating systems and browsers.
I imported font by using #font-face like this:
#font-face {
font-family: NoyhGeometric;
src: url("../fonts/Typesketchbook - Noyh Geometric Regular.ttf") format("truetype"),
url("../fonts/Typesketchbook - NoyhGeometric-Regular.otf") format("opentype");
}
I use Google Chrome browser in both images.
On Ubuntu (displays properly):
On Windows (displays strange):
Try adding font smoothing property in you css
body {
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
-moz-osx-font-smoothing: grayscale;
}
Ref: https://davidwalsh.name/font-smoothing
Most of the browsers support woff/woff2 format for fonts.
Go to SquirrelFonts to convert one font format with all the others. The website also provides a pre-made CSS for your convenience.
You should add a .woff or woff2 format to fix your problem.
The issue could be related to "Clear Type" not be "enabled" and Chrome on Windows apparently needs it to better render fonts. This does not resolve the issue as it cannot be controlled through css and javascript.
Try this page in Chrome on Windows: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Old+Standard+TT
Observer the font not rendering.
Then try going to Start -> Settings -> Type in "Adjust ClearType text" and in the window that opens up check "Turn on Clear Type".
Then restart Chrome, navigate to the same page and observe that the font issue is resolved.
I am using Open Sans and Open Sans Light font in my site.
And below is the googleapis font link which I am rendering from google fonts.
I want to use Open Sans Light and Open Sans font in some of the text.
If i choose open sans 300,400,600.
and use font name in the class and add font-weight:300 for light and 400 for regular
it doesn't work for ie7 and 8. It shows the big font on ie 7.
but by using font-weight related to the font styling works fine for other browsers.
Need help to fix this for ie7 and 8.
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans:300,400,600' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
With Google fonts you won't be able to solve this problem.
The problem is that IE7/8 understands only
font-weight:700 which it interprets as equivalent of font-weight:bold
and
font-weight:400 which it interprets as equivalent of font-weight:normal.
A solution to this is to serve a separate font file to IE7/8 which contains the desired font face weight - google fonts foes not offer this kind of fallback - but it is very nicely solved with Typekit, which than let's you use this kind of crossbrowser font face rule:
font-family: "proxima-nova-n6", "proxima-nova", sans-serif;
font-weight: 600;
The first declaration - "proxima-nova-n6" - provides a fallback for IE7/8 for a weight of 600.
If you want to solve this without paying for a service, you will have to create separate font files containing different font width - upload them to fontsquirell and generate the complete set of formats needed to cover all the browsers. Take care with licenses - not all font's are free to embed on web.
Recently after upgrading my Google Chrome browser to Version 32.0.1700.76 m I noticed that bold fonts have a blur/drop shadow effect on my sites using #font-face.
Here is an example site with bold text.
Here is an example site with bold headers.
Before updating my Chrome these sites were displaying font correctly, I have tested fonts in the following browsers and they are still displaying correctly:
Firefox 26.0
IE11
Opera 12.11
Safari 5.1.7
Is there any way to stop this blur effect other than downgrading Google Chrome?
EDIT
I sent a error report to Google about this issue and it seems like they have reverted the "blurry" effect on fonts. To avoid this issue go with Jukka K. Korpela's solution.
In the examples, you have declared only normal (regular) typefaces for Gotham and Sansation in #font-face rules, yet try to use bold face. This makes browsers apply algorithmic (synthetic) bolding, with varying results.
The solution is to get bold typefaces and declare them, in #font-face rules that have font-weight: bold.
I had the same issue. The question was asked almost 5 years back, but the problem still persists. I am using Chrome 69.
In my project when google font is used I got blurry text.
I use the google font via below code :
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,600,800'
rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
And the most important part in font-weight properties I always use
font-weight: bold
Solution: Now if you use 400,600,800 as normal, semi-bold and bold, of course then replace it with
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:light,regular,medium,thin,italic,mediumitalic,bold'
rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
Note: I am sharing a solution which solved my issue. It may not apply to your situation.
Can I use "Arial Rounded MT Bold" with css ?
font-family:"Arial Rounded MT Bold", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
Nothing Changed when I put :
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
Google Fonts has Nunito, by Vernon Adams:
http://www.google.com/webfonts/family?family=Nunito
It's nice and rounded; sort of reminds me of what they're using on Glitch.
It's hard to know without more information from the OP but I've seen these same symptoms caused by the hardware acceleration feature in Firefox. It's been know to cause several problems with font rendering. One I've observed is failing to render a non-standard font (such as "Arial MT Rounded Bold") despite it being present on the client machine.
For example, this page...
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body { font-family: "Arial Rounded MT Bold"; font-size: 30px; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
This can be really annoying.
</body>
</html>
When viewed in IE, Chrome or FF with hardware acceleration turned off the font appears correctly, like this...
But when viewed in FF with hardware acceleration enabled the browser fails to "find" the specified font so it defaults to another, like this...
There have been issues with this "feature" of FF since version 4.
Probably the best solution is to either use a different (standard) font or (as Kent suggests) find a similar web font that will work in all modern browsers. Alternatively, like many font issues, the problem can be mitigated by supplying a list of font families to use as fall-backs.
I've seen an alternative Google Font suggested here from back in 2011 which is a pretty good match but there are some thin parts to the font which aren't the same as the Arial Rounded MT Bold.
For people still looking for an alternative I think this one is a better match; its called Varela Round by Joe Prince:
Varela Round
I would also set it in font-weight: bold; for a more accurate match.
To use custom fonts with good cross browser compatibility, take a look at FontSquirrel. They will generate the correct CSS to get custom fonts working cross browser. Take a look around their site for Rounded MT Bold or whatever else you want :-) Also, if you want more fonts, take a look at http://www.fontex.org/
Google Fonts is also a possibility. There are a lot of different fonts but I don't know whether there's exactly Arial Rounded MT Bold.
You can use only fonts which are installed at the clients computer!! So just mentioning them in the css font-family doesn't work if the font is not installed. For this, Google Fonts and others bring the functionality... so everytime you use a font that is not "Times", "Arial" or "Verdana", which are installed on nearly every computer, you should think about an alternative to raw css
There's a good chance that — if nothing changed (on your local browser's rendering of the webpage) when you changed the font stack — that you don't actually have Arial MT Rounded Bold installed on your computer. One way to test this is to use Firebug, to 'inspect element' for the headline (or whatever the font is applied to), and to edit the font-family listing in the right-hand Firebug pane. (Usually, I just find the named font and add a space into the name of it, which "breaks" the call to the proper font, and the browser then moves on to the next font in the stack.)
Other options include using Google's web-font Nunito (as Kent Brewster recommended a few minutes ago), or setting up a font-face font on your own server, providing one of the rounded fonts (RockoFLF Bold, FF Din Rounded, Nunito, and Arial MT Rounded Bold are all options). (Technically, per Kent's comment, Glitch is using RockoFLF, with Arial MT Rounded Bold as the second font in the stack. At least, that's what they were doing a few months ago when I last looked at their code. ... Oh ... just checked again, and they've dropped the Arial MT Rounded Bold out of the stack. They're calling RockoFLF with an embedded font-face.)
Anyway, as Kent Brewster noted, I think your best bet is to use Google Web Fonts' 'Nunito', if you aren't sure that it'll be on your users' computers (or even your own).
It may not appear because of system compatibility - you can check out Arial Rounded MT Bold on CSS Font Stack for compatibility. There's a 59.53% on Windows and 95.14% on Mac. https://www.cssfontstack.com/Arial-Rounded-MT-Bold
Its worth noting that Linux doesn't come with Arial by default so one should not rely on a font being present on a users computer. Instead they should download the files (license permitting), host them on their site and link to them using #font-face.
I'm having a little difficulty getting Chrome to recognise my font-choice. I've not got a lot of code as I've only just started this website.
Basically I have a reset.css on the website and then my main.css is called afterwards. In the reset.css it declares the below statement under pretty much every html tag under the sun:
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
In the main.css the same statement is declared under html, body and p, and even some specific p tags such as p.headerText and p.newsDate
This is a pretty standard setup. On Safari, IE and Firefox, the font renders as Arial / Helvetica, on Chrome it renders as Times New Roman.
It's really frustrating. Can anybody help?
UPDATE
The Computed Style on Chrome is showing the correct rule, and I even tested this on a friend of mines machine and it was the same. Both running Chrome 8.0.552.237 on OSX 10.6.6
Cheers
I've figured out the problem. I'd used the font-weight: lighter; command - I removed this and the problem disappeared. This would suggest that it's a clash of fonts on my machine. Still don't understand why it appeared fine on everyone else's machine but the problem is now fixed - doesn't look right because I have to use a heavier font but it's still works.
UPDATE
We're a graphic design agency so there are thousands of font-variations on my machine. It seems the clash was there. I swapped Helvetica and Arial in the font-stack and it seems to be fine all round now.
Also, it seems to do with Chrome and Font Books that aren't the standard ones on a Mac. I did some hunting and I found a script that'll work, albeit temporarily. http://www.danielhanly.com/blog/tutorial/google-chrome-for-mac-broken-fonts/
This will clear your internal font cache and will fix the problem for a short time.
Essentially, this isn't a problem with the code, but rather, a problem with my development machine. There's some clash of fonts happening when we manage our fonts with a non-standard font manager (Linotype FontExplorer). Strange that it's only in Chrome though.
Exactly the same problem (only in Chrome) occurred to me!
But after deactivation of font "Arial" (no matter if truetype, postscript, opentype etc.) in my Mac SnowLeopard system, this effect of displaying Times New Roman instead a Sans Serif Font like Arial, Helvetica, Verdana etc. disappeared completely.
I hope it helps.
Modellname: iMac
Modell-Identifizierung: iMac10,1
Prozessortyp: Intel Core 2 Duo
Prozessorgeschwindigkeit: 3,06 GHz
Anzahl der Prozessoren: 1
Gesamtzahl der Kerne: 2
L2-Cache: 3 MB
Speicher: 4 GB
Busgeschwindigkeit: 1,07 GHz
Please try to "Inspect element" with Chrome, and look at "computed style". What is it written?
Always inspecting styles, is your font-family overwritten?
Update
I tried for you. I see Arial, the right font. See attachment.
Have you tried a cache-less refresh? (Ctrl+Shift+R)
It's possible that chrome is using an older, cached copy of the CSS.
In my case, I was using bootstrap on a page. It was the specification of text-rendering: optimizelegibility; that was causing the rendering problem of my font in Chrome.
I changed it to text-rendering: auto; and that seemed to fix the problem.