I have noticed this weird behavior in firefox, it seems like font have some colorful noise. The example is shown in the image.
Does anyone know how this can be solved? With some CSS media type (which now is screen)?
I'm using firefox 4.0.1.
Any help is appreciated.
You're seeing subpixel font positioning and rendering. I assume that you're on Windows, which is why you only see it with Firefox 4 (and IE9, if you try that). On Mac, Firefox has done this for a very long time.
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I have a bespoke font for a client which I converted into a webfont. All went fine, works on my mac and others across Firefox, Safari and Chrome, however when viewed using Windows, the font becomes extremely distorted and unreadable, on any browser.
Does anyone know what could be causing this? Could it be an issue within the original font or is there a code trick I can use to fix this?
It's a hinting problem. Microsoft’s rasteriser tries to align characters to whole pixel grid.
Read: https://www.typotheque.com/articles/hinting
I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I can't find any canonical question / answer.
Currently, IE9 and Firefox 4+ both use different font rendering that produces (for some) more blurry fonts but overall better kerning and more consistent results. Also, it renders non-standard fonts on Windows much better. I've have not done a thorough investigation, but I think it has to do with the fact that both IE9 and Firefox use now a different graphics layer which in apparently renders fonts differently. Also, the reason some of the standard fonts such as Arial, Tahoma etc. look in Firefox the same as 10 years ago is that it actually has a list of exceptions for them (look for gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families).
So far so good. The problem is Chrome. It still uses the old font rendering that makes the non-standard fonts practically unusable. Just for illustration, the font I had in mind was: http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Play. Just open the sample in Firefox/IE9 and Chrome and you should see the difference. Is there anything I can do? Or should I look for a more optimized font.
Update: I see it's a common problem: the headings on http://www.smashingmagazine.com look very jaggy in Chrome.
Update: Sample image:
I have read that Chrome (originally Chromium) has anti-aliasing issues that's why it's jaggy.
Using font-faces also makes a difference than using local fonts in your system. So, all we can do is just wait until they fix this issue or help the Chromium Project if you can.
Known issue. You can try gdipp or MacType.
Copying my anwswer from Making CSS3 #font-face font rendering play nice with ClearType on Windows
A similar question here: Font-face embedded fonts look fuzzy in Windows 7 browsers got an answer that solved the same issue for me.
The fontsquirrel font generator http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator optimizes fonts and adds them with hinting/rendering info that helps the windows font rendering engine render them better. It also generates smaller files, which will download faster.
I have been trying to play a bit with the CSS3 and build a Netscape logo purely out of CSS3 for training.
Here is the link:
http://alonbt.com/css3/netscape/
The thing is: In Firefox all looks well, but in Chrome something goes wrong. I assume this is the overflow:hidden I have - in Firefox it works but Chrome doesn't seem to render it well.
Any suggestions bout what might be the problem?
I've detailed this issue here: http://tech.bluesmoon.info/2011/04/overflowhidden-border-radius-and.html
In particular, you're being hit by https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50072
The issue shows up in Safari too.
You can workaround this problem if you don't use relative positioning. Try getting rid of the 'position: absolute' CSS property and use negative margins instead (e.g. in your case, something like: 'margin: -204px 0 0 -475px;').
Pay attention however that you'll have to compensate somehow on item ordering (you no longer have control over z-index but you need it).
I had the same problem in Chrome on a Windows computer, a img in a div, with overflow:hidden on the div. On a Mac everything showed fine, but Windows Chrome ignored the overflow:hidden. My solution: -webkit-transform:scale(1); on the img (the child).
I have an image that is not loading in IE8. When browsing to the image it comes up. It loads in Firefox and Chrome.
I have tried running IE8 in safe mode and compatibility mode.
On some boxes with the same OS and browser it displays. Any other suggestions?
Thanks
Cant see your code but I've had this problem before.
Im guessing you've got
<img src="pathtoimage/photo.jpg">
Try
<img src="/pathtoimage/photo.jpg" />
or try substituting in an absolute url and see if it makes a difference
<img src="http://mysite/pathtoimage/myphoto.jpg">
What do you see? A red-X? I have seen this happen with some .jpg's with funky color settings. I apologize for not knowing the exact specifics, but I sent it back to our graphics folks who know immediately what to do. "Oh, sorry - wrong blahblah. Try this one." and it works. CMYK vs. RGB maybe?
I think the problem is with the AlphaImageLoader IE hack to get transparency. Our image is a gif with the css AlphaImageLoader style applied.
First off, apologies if this is a simple thing, but I did a search here after googling and came up with nothing concrete: http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[%40font-face]+print%2C+firefox
I have generated an #font-face kit with font squirrel with two licensed open type fonts. The demo works fine in all browsers except for 1 issue. I want the font to print, and it does for IE, but printing the document in Firefox 3.6.12 & Chrome 8.0.552.215.
Should the FS demo font be printable in FF and GC or is this impossible to do?
Thanks!
I don't think that this is currently possible in firefox, seems to completely disregard the fontface feature.
It's not just this though, seems to disregard background colour css (as do all apart from opera currently).
Spacing seems a little worse in firefox too, more bunched up.
Seems to have an issue with strong tags.
Been having a similar problem and starting to think the issue in with Firefox. A few things seem to point to it being a bug in the 3.6.13 version, but it is also possible that the font file has an invalid cmap problem as Firefox stopped rendering those as of 3.5.4.
More Info:
http://support.mozilla.com/ak/questions/769971
http://support.mozilla.com/sq/questions/761014
invalid cmap problem:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526869