| Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | nathanziarek | 8/8/11 6:09 AM | Google Chrome version (type about:version into the address bar): 12-14 Operating System: Windows 7 Error Message: None Extensions installed: None Please describe your question/comment in detail (for example, steps to reproduce the problem): The font |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | DavidG | 8/12/11 7:53 AM | I have no answer for you unfortunately, but wanted to confirm that I'm experiencing the same exact thing. If you find a fix, please do post it back here. I will do the same. |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | hrobinett | 8/12/11 1:02 PM | I am experiencing the same problem! Very frustrating. Is there a fix to this? |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | Epic Revolt | 8/12/11 3:38 PM | Chrome does not initially render fonts the same ways other major browsers do. to fix this problem on YOUR website add a text-shadow to the text and Chrome will magically render it perfectly. Don't ask me why or how this works, it just does. As for ot |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | nathanziarek | 8/15/11 1:50 PM | @Epic— I can't tell you how many times I tried that trick to no avail. Then, thinking I was making drop shadows incorrectly, I copied and pasted some code of another site and it worked... I started playing with the values to understand why my curre |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | nathanziarek | 8/15/11 2:15 PM | hmm. Of course, FireFox just ignores any shadow with a negative blur. No perfect answer, I suppose, but I much prefer having Chrome look reasonable and FireFox to miss the drop shadow, all things being equal. |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | Jamyweb | 8/21/11 5:02 AM | Hi Guys! First a BIG THANKS to Epic for his great help/solution. I also found that my Google font (Yanone Kaffeesatz) did not display well in Chrome although I had no problem with IE8-9 and Firefox 5. I use the latest Chrome v13.0.782.112 but it doe |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | JanDeVries | 8/23/11 6:45 AM | Based on Epic Revolt's answer, I came up with a workaround that applies an invisible text-shadow to all websites. It hinges on the user stylesheet feature that all major browsers support, which allows you to supply a default style for all content dis |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | Jamyweb | 8/23/11 7:17 AM | Hi! Thanks Jan for your great tip! I also found that the problem came when the web page I was watching used a Google font already installed on my local computer (C:/Windows/Fonts) After I removed the concerned font from my local computer, pages loo |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | gwhiz2k | 10/26/11 1:23 PM | I've been fighting with this for a few days now... I've tried testing on a machine I didn't have my Web font installed on; tried the text-shadow trick, and also tried the CSS3 Transform rotate trick I read about elsewhere. Nothing is working. The rot |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | raylu | 11/9/11 12:05 AM | I'm in a similar situtation. text-shadow and font-smoothing seem to no longer have any effect on Windows and Chrome 15. |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | Different55 | 11/29/11 7:36 AM | Can you apply a style sheet to every page in chrome? I know they have it in opera, but that doesn't do much good here. ;) If you can you can just whip up a quick, small style sheet that applies a text-shadow to everything and fix your font problem. |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | williamjeaton | 12/20/11 7:44 AM | Spotted the same thing. The text-shadow: 0px -1px 1px #fff; used to work for me but I have noticed that it has now stopped working!!! GOOGLE - HELP - your own browser doesn't render your own webfonts!!!! |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | mistame | 12/28/11 3:02 PM | I'm getting really tired of this issue, it's been what, 3 or 4 updates, maybe more, and this still is an issue?. I don't think I'll be able to recommend chrome any longer, they've taken away gtalk labs, and haven't gotten on the ball with this. It's |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | Aaron Martin-Colby | 2/2/12 10:51 PM | These font rendering issues are murder. It's giving me Netscape/IE flashbacks from 1998. |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | SoCalWebGuy | 2/13/12 4:24 PM | Something is screwed. Sites look fine in IE but terrible in Chrome. I guess I must switch to IE, which disappoints me no end. |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | pcastaneda | 2/14/12 11:58 AM | I am having the same problem after I upgraded to Chrome Beta the other day. I literally can not read the fonts on websites. I've tried changing encoding, tried to modify the default font in Chrome, but simply can not get chrome beta to work. Any i |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | techouse | 3/11/12 1:45 AM | The text-shadow hack doesn't work anymore in Chrome 16+ :/ |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | Andrew Kehrig | 3/20/12 11:21 AM | /*the following does the trick for me*/ -webkit-text-stroke: 1px transparent; |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | snowfoil | 3/21/12 6:09 AM | This fix is not working on my site unfortunately (in Chrome 17). I can't believe Google's own browser cannot render their web fonts properly. How are we supposed to use them on a website if 25% of users (according to Chrome market share) are going to |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | Andrew Kehrig | 3/21/12 11:44 AM | It is terribly unfortunate, though currently the -webkit-text-stroke: 1px transparent; does work for me on chrome 17. Do you have cleartype enabled or possibly some other css overriding the -webkit-text-stroke? This is pretty much strictly a Windows |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | code7 | 4/22/12 2:29 AM | Having the same issue, can see the problem in the font test you have posted as well as on sites we have built. The CSS ideas and cleartype settings etc dont help. Lost of posts all over the place about it and no solutions? Nothing at all from Google, |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | Zombiestxt | 4/27/12 6:57 PM | Maybe Google is working on conditional comments for Chrome to offer users the ability to view the page in a different browser!? :p |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | Brad Shaw | 5/28/12 3:49 PM | Clear Type is enabled by default in Window 7. |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | aldrinlsc | 6/16/12 10:00 AM | Same issue happened to me, other browsers can render it properly except Chrome, version 19+. -webkit-font-smoothing doesn't seem to work anymore, same thing with the text shadow but i found another way to fix this issue: If you're using a numeric val |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | GoTarik | 7/10/12 3:26 AM | |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | googlehupf | 9/4/12 6:02 AM | |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | tushbee | 9/17/12 11:33 AM | |
| Re: Font rendering is horrendous using Google-supplied Web Fonts (Windows) | svguyui | 12/6/12 6:21 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |