Did the forums get a font change?

[shortylickens]

Or did I do something weird in Chrome without realizing it?

 

[Arcadio]

Looks normal to me.

 

[Anubis]

looks the same to me

 

[shortylickens]

My fonts are all messed up today:


http://i.imgur.com/ZMBJOAr.jpg

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Yeah, it's a problem with the latest chrome. I've got it too. Some people have a thing going in a thread around here somewhere. I think it's about the 64 bit chrome (the thread is) if you want to find it. I just posted there but mobile is messing up my stuff.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Chrome font rendering was updated.

 

[rsd]

Noticed the same thing a few days ago, thought I was going crazy

 

[makesmefez]

http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/0...king-fonts-windows-revamped-password-manager/

 

[Kaido]

Chrome font rendering was updated.

Yes, this. It happened on my Mac the other day. I just updated my Chrome on my Windows machine today & it happened. Looks terrible. I've been playing with Tools > Encoding & haven't figured out how to get it back to normal. It's bad in the way that a lot of text under Linux looks bad...lines are too close together etc.

 

[Kaido]

My fonts are all messed up today:


http://i.imgur.com/ZMBJOAr.jpg

Yeah, garbage Chrome update, bleh! :thumbsdown:

 

[Kaido]

http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/0...king-fonts-windows-revamped-password-manager/

Yeah, right:

With today’s release, users can expect better-looking fonts and increased rendering performance without changes required by Web developers. Unless you’re a designer or font aficionado, the difference is subtle until you actually update and start using the browser

Even typing this looks like that weirdo font style that my Chromebook uses...the letters are too skinny, the sub-forum links on the left are too close together & a bit fuzzy (hard to read), etc.

 

[Kaido]

http://thenextweb.com/google/2014/0...king-fonts-windows-revamped-password-manager/

OK, comments to the rescue:

1. Open a new tab and type in "chrome:flags" (without quotes) in the search bar
2. Do a Find (CTRL+F) for "DirectWrite" (Disable DirectWrite Windows) & Enable it
3. Close all of your Chrome browser (restart Chrome)

My forum fonts are back to normal now :thumbsup:

 

[Rinaun]

OK, comments to the rescue:

1. Open a new tab and type in "chrome:flags" (without quotes) in the search bar
2. Do a Find (CTRL+F) for "DirectWrite" (Disable DirectWrite Windows) & Enable it
3. Close all of your Chrome browser (restart Chrome)

My forum fonts are back to normal now :thumbsup:

ty

 

[xBiffx]

ty

Thanks for saving my eyesight.

 

[shortylickens]

Just refused the chrome update on my laptop.

I actually need this thing to work properly.

 

[Sattern]

Everything works the same on my end, maybe your eyes are a bit buggy today .

 

[cmdrdredd]

Everything works the same on my end, maybe your eyes are a bit buggy today .

It definitely changed, it's using the same encoding method as the beta used about a month ago I think it was. They (Google)now updated all the browsers. I can see that the text is sharper but it looks squished and from a distance on a high resolution screen, is harder to read.

 

[shortylickens]

If I zoom to 110% everything looks awesome but kinda big.

 

[Crono]

Font looks thinner.
I've been using Chromium 64-bit for a few weeks now, but I might switch back to Firefox as my primary (not just because of this, but from other issues as well). It's fast to load pages, though, so I'll probably still keep it on my desktop and Chromium portable as primary on tablet.

I wish Opera and their add-ons were updated more because I actually prefer it in a lot of ways.

EDIT: Trying Opera Next now

 

[SunnyD]

Heh, now it looks more like Linux.

 

[Platypus]

it's definitely chrome where they ruin something new with each release.

the fonts on this board are unreadable in newer builds of chrome. I downgraded to make it usable.

Going to try that fix Kaido posted, thanks.

The bold + underline in links is fucking eye bleeding, I can't imagine how someone thought that looked ok.

 

[Greenman]

OK, comments to the rescue:

1. Open a new tab and type in "chrome:flags" (without quotes) in the search bar
2. Do a Find (CTRL+F) for "DirectWrite" (Disable DirectWrite Windows) & Enable it
3. Close all of your Chrome browser (restart Chrome)

My forum fonts are back to normal now :thumbsup:

Tried that, didn't help. Clicking on opera seems to have done the trick though.

 

[cmdrdredd]

it's definitely chrome where they ruin something new with each release.

the fonts on this board are unreadable in newer builds of chrome. I downgraded to make it usable.

Going to try that fix Kaido posted, thanks.

Disabling Directwrite fixes it all back to normal, before the update. Supposedly IE and Firefox use Directwrite but they don't look like everything is squished. I don't know what is actually different between their implementations.

Like shortylickens I tried zooming and everything looks fantastic but too large.

 

[cmdrdredd]

Tried that, didn't help. Clicking on opera seems to have done the trick though.

Make sure the directwrite option is white not grey. Grey = on.

When you click enable you are telling the browser to disable it. Kind of backwards.

 

[Greenman]

Make sure the directwrite option is white not grey. Grey = on.

When you click enable you are telling the browser to disable it. Kind of backwards.

Odd.
Chrome had a chance, didn't work, it's gone. If google wants to keep it's head up my ass, they're going to have to step up their game.