Timeline for We are switching to system fonts on May 10, 2021
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| May 18, 2021 at 16:43 | comment | added | rustyx | Turning off "Use hardware acceleration when available" is not a good solution... HW acceleration speeds up rendering considerably by offloading tasks like scrolling, scaling, blending, as well as all SVG and canvas rendering, to the GPU. The issue is that Segoe UI is a crappy font to begin with. Before the change SO used Arial on Windows, and that one obviously worked perfectly, also with HW acceleration on. | |
| May 18, 2021 at 10:41 | comment | added | EvgenKo423 | Ahhah, that looks like Turbo Pascal under MS-DOS we've used at school!... =D Sorry for laughing at your problem, but this made my day... | |
| May 17, 2021 at 19:59 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod | Oh I am so glad y'all figured this one out. This one had me absolutely stumped. | |
| May 17, 2021 at 17:05 | comment | added | Chris O | @JonathanPotter Glad to see the problem fixed. Turning HW acceleration ON or OFF sometimes fixes (or causes) strange errors with the various browsers, at least on Windows, which is my main experience these days. Could definitely be a Chrome bug, or Chrome is just doing something unusual that exposes a bug/quirk in DirectX or the display driver. Sometimes updating Windows or the display driver can fix these issues (or cause others ;- ) not that I'm jaded). <== That's a lie, I'm totally jaded, why the Bleep does MS think HW acceleration is beneficial for rendering fonts? </rant> | |
| S May 17, 2021 at 11:18 | history | suggested | user271215 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 17, 2021 at 3:22 | comment | added | Jonathan Potter | @ChrisO Bingo! This was turned off; turning it on fixes the problem. I guess this makes it a Chrome bug rather than an issue with SO's font usage. | |
| May 16, 2021 at 1:44 | comment | added | Chris O | @JonathanPotter Have you tried toggling the "Use hardware acceleration when available" setting? | |
| May 14, 2021 at 0:37 | comment | added | Jonathan Potter | @AaronShekey It doesn't do it in Edge so it seems like something specific to Chrome. I have verified that it does it in an Incognito window as well which suggests it's not related to any extensions I have installed. It's probably some particular Chrome setting, but how to tell which one? | |
| May 13, 2021 at 21:07 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod | I'm really struggling to reproduce this issue. Anyone else got any repro steps here? | |
| May 13, 2021 at 19:17 | comment | added | Jonathan Potter | @AaronShekey Yes I have the Windows Terminal Preview installed. I don't remember installing Cascadia Mono separately. ClearType is turned on. | |
| May 13, 2021 at 17:52 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod | What are your clear type settings? Do you have Windows Terminal installed, or did you install Cascadia Mono directly? | |
| May 12, 2021 at 21:06 | comment | added | Jonathan Potter | @AaronShekey The font seems to be Cascadia Mono. Windows 10.0.19042.928, Chrome 90.0.4430.212 | |
| May 12, 2021 at 16:53 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod | Well this most definitely is not supposed to happen. What in the world is going on here? Can you tell me what font that's rendering in? Browser? Looks like Windows of course but something has gone off the rails here. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 12:22 | comment | added | Luuklag | That is really worse. | |
| May 11, 2021 at 11:58 | history | edited | Jonathan Potter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 11, 2021 at 7:29 | history | answered | Jonathan Potter | CC BY-SA 4.0 |