Font weirdness – upper case characters appearing bold?

  • james.crowley

    (@jamescrowley)


    6 years, 5 months ago

    The demo for this theme (and my own blog) has strange behaviour on Windows, where the upper case letters appear bold?

    View post on imgur.com

    You’ll see that in particular occurrences of ‘I’ stand out significantly.

    Has anyone else seen this?

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    6 years, 5 months ago

    Which browser, and version of, are you using?

    Thread Starter james.crowley

    (@jamescrowley)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    James, this happens on all browsers on Windows 10 for me – I checked in Firefox (v70), Chrome (v77) and Edge, on two machines.

    On Mac the fonts render nicely, without this weird ‘bold’ upper case characters. On Windows they’re not bold bold, but enough to look strange (as in the screenshot)

    So it seems to be something off with the font rendering on Windows 10 at least?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Interesting! I don’t have a Windows PC to test from myself, but I used BrowserStack to check under Windows 10 with Edge 18 https://cld.wthms.co/MG62g9 Firefox 69 https://cld.wthms.co/mPZG9N and Chrome 77: https://cld.wthms.co/jgyhiR

    These all look fine.

    BrowserStack doesn’t do any of the rendering on my local machine, it basically just screenshares the browser, so I don’t think this is an all-Windows problem necessarily.

    Do you have access to another Windows PC to test from?

    Thread Starter james.crowley

    (@jamescrowley)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    Strange. It happens on the two Windows machines I have access to, but I don’t have any others I can check.

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 4 months ago by james.crowley.
    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    6 years, 4 months ago

    I’m not a Windows guy myself, but maybe re-install the affected fonts?

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