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Ugly screen font
Posted by elizabeth_355 in
10 Oct 2007 — 10:43am
10 Oct 2007 — 10:43am
The past week or two, I've been noticing this hideously unreadable font all over the internet. It's even invaded my favorite blog.
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10 Oct 2007 — 10:49am
What fonts have you installed or perhaps more importantly uninstalled recently? Removing Arial or Helvetica may result in fall back to a fugly bitmap font like that.
10 Oct 2007 — 10:51am
Could be something awry with your system. That's more likely than an international webwide conspiracy to put ugly fonts on websites (that one already happened some years ago).
. . .
Bert Vanderveen BNO
10 Oct 2007 — 11:08am
>that one already happened some years ago
No that's happening now... http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssatten
10 Oct 2007 — 11:42am
Oh, I wouldn't dare uninstall Helvetica or Arial, as much as I would like to! The only font I've installed recently is Jugend, an old-time spidery-looking display font. I ended up not even using it.
10 Oct 2007 — 11:58am
Sometimes apps install font too. On Windows you could try doing a system restore to just before the time it started going hogwild. On the Mac? Maybe this would help...
http://www.macworld.com/2007/10/secrets/nov07workingmac/index.php
10 Oct 2007 — 12:05pm
Thanx sii ... I'm on a Windows 98 PC & everything else seems to be normal, so I guess I can live with it.
10 Oct 2007 — 1:10pm
"’m on a Windows 98 PC & everything else seems to be normal"
Nothing's normal on a Win 98 pc.
OOps! Did I say that out loud?
;)
10 Oct 2007 — 2:12pm
The css at one of the sites that renders badly on my machine specifies Lucida Grande, which I don't have, so that might explain it.
I've worked on a Windoze XP box & as far as I know, the only thing XP has that I don't is the dancing avatars that come with XP. With 98, I have full access to DOS and TeX, which I need. I haven't worked on a Mac.
10 Oct 2007 — 3:29pm
For Web surfing and web development you should use a more secure OS. XP with all the updates, Vista, or Mac OS would be better choices. Keep the W98 box around for your DOS and TeX'n but putting it on the net is asking for troubles.
Cheers, Si
11 Oct 2007 — 6:25am
I'm getting that problem on wikipedia.
16 Oct 2008 — 10:58am
The other day I used a cruddy old Windows 98 laptop,
and I have to tell you that it was lightning fast. :-/
hhp