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Internet / Firefox and latest WorkplaceSans font...something's not right!
« on: May 25, 2016, 02:46:55 am »
This is not specifically a Firefox issue (as best as I can tell) but since it impacts Firefox (17.0.11) only on my machine I'm posting in this group.
Alright...so I've been using Alex's WorkPlace Sans font family for a looooong time...last version was the 0.91 drop...recently I noticed that 1.01 was out...went out, grabbed the bitmap and non-bitmapped versions...installed them on my system (one at a time of course), re-booted, only to scream in horror (well, not quite, but you get the point...LOL) when I saw the nearly illegible Firefox menus once Firefox was restarted.
Through some experimentation I discoverd that changing the custom setting of gfx.os2.font.hinting=3 to something like 2 or 1 makes it look better, but certainly nowhere near what my current 0.91 version looks like with it being set to 3.
So am I missing something on my machine to make this latest font drop work correctly? Or perhaps, do I have some setting somewhere that should be re-set/turned-off?
I certainly have this font specified in my userChrome.css file, here is a section that controls the font and sizing used for the menus and menubar:
=== START ===
/* this controls the MENUBAR entries */
menubar {
font-family: workplace sans !important;
font-size: 16px !important;
}
/* this controls the actual listing of MENU headers */
menu {
font-family: workplace sans !important;
font-weight: bold !important;
font-size: 16px !important;
}
....
=== STOP ===
Thanks everyone!
-Dariusz
Alright...so I've been using Alex's WorkPlace Sans font family for a looooong time...last version was the 0.91 drop...recently I noticed that 1.01 was out...went out, grabbed the bitmap and non-bitmapped versions...installed them on my system (one at a time of course), re-booted, only to scream in horror (well, not quite, but you get the point...LOL) when I saw the nearly illegible Firefox menus once Firefox was restarted.
Through some experimentation I discoverd that changing the custom setting of gfx.os2.font.hinting=3 to something like 2 or 1 makes it look better, but certainly nowhere near what my current 0.91 version looks like with it being set to 3.
So am I missing something on my machine to make this latest font drop work correctly? Or perhaps, do I have some setting somewhere that should be re-set/turned-off?
I certainly have this font specified in my userChrome.css file, here is a section that controls the font and sizing used for the menus and menubar:
=== START ===
/* this controls the MENUBAR entries */
menubar {
font-family: workplace sans !important;
font-size: 16px !important;
}
/* this controls the actual listing of MENU headers */
menu {
font-family: workplace sans !important;
font-weight: bold !important;
font-size: 16px !important;
}
....
=== STOP ===
Thanks everyone!
-Dariusz