'Open Sans' Rendering Differently on Chrome Vs. Other Operating Systems
After Upgrading to 14.04, Any Use of the 'Open Sans' on Web Pages Renders in Chrome Using a Very 'Thin' (Maybe the 300 Weight?) Version of the Font Which Is...
After upgrading to 14.04, any use of the 'Open Sans' on web pages renders in Chrome using a very 'thin' (maybe the 300 weight?) version of the font which is almost unreadable on Ubuntu - however, the same rendering seems to look fine on OSX/Windows as well as Firefox on Ubuntu. Any ideas what may have changed to cause this?
2 Answers
This is most likely because you have installed the my-weather-indicator package, from ppa:atareao/atareao. The version of the font in this package is the same version supplied by Google Web Fonts, which now uses a more condensed version of the 400 weight (Normal). You can either
- Uninstall the
my-weather-indicatorpackage, or - Download the Open Sans font from Font Squirrel, and unzip the contents into
~/.fonts(create the folder if it doesn't exist).
On my Ubuntu, "Open Sans" is just ignored by Chrome.. the font seems to be called "Sans" instead. If I add that as fallback on my site's font-family then I get same results as in FF/Opera etc.
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