Font rendering characters inconsistently on some OSes and looks like a ransom note

[lampholder]

Ubuntu Firefox:

Isn't programming great and not at all annoying?

[nadonomy]

I suspect this is related to the rendering issues @turt2live is running into on Windows:

He was able to narrow it down to specifically 12px text styles, along with some other stray .5px ones.

@lampholder from the same setup can you screengrab this link https://codepen.io/nadonomy/pen/YdjwjY?

For reference- here's how it should look on a sane setup (macOS, Safari):

And how it looks on Windows:

[lampholder]

Here it is on ubuntu:

[nadonomy]

Cheers, super useful.

[nadonomy]

Now wondering if this might be related to the display being lower DPI, and whether we're just hitting yet more artefacts of Nunito being a display typeface.

[alicerunsonfedora]

It might be just Nunito itself. I occasionally run into this problem with the AliceOS documentation page.

[nadonomy]

Possibly related: https://teamtreehouse.com/community/issue-with-google-webfonts-rendering

[lampholder]

From a duplicate issue:

[ara4n]

This is still biting people. ISTR that i dug into it at some point and discovered it was related to cleartype font hinting and whether the browsers on Windows were using GDI or its own font renderer? or something?

[ara4n]

@turt2live can you try disabling 'Accelerated 2D canvas' in chrome://flags?

[ara4n]

This looks suspiciously like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27828423/google-font-letter-height-not-consistent. @turt2live do you have a 'enable Direct Write' in flags? If so, can you try tha ttoo?

[ara4n]

This is also google/fonts#632