On 2016-12-21 3:56 AM, Harald Dunkel wrote:
On 12/21/2016 11:02 AM, Patrick Brunschwig wrote:
On 21.12.16 10:09, Harald Dunkel wrote:
I find the light grey font on a white background *extremely*
difficult to read.
Thanks, fixed.
The greater contrast is much easier to read, thank you.
On this Windows 10 machine the fonts look OK on the 96(100%) DPI displays
(1920x1080 & 1280x1024) in Firefox 50.1.0. When I change the DPI scaling up to
125% or 150% they look really sharp but too large because these displays are
100% DPI native.
I looked at the same page in Chrome 55 and the feeling is different. What
renders as an almost medium weight font in Firefox looks more lightweight in
Chrome. Sometimes the l or 1 is two light (blurry) anti-aliased lines instead of
a single darker line or a dark line with a light line. In Firefox there is
anti-aliasing but it fades off of a darker line.
I played with Google Fonts mostly in Chrome (https://fonts.google.com/) and
Roboto seems decent and reading on their web page with either browser seems
fine, but their samples and text even on other pages, like About, uses a much
bigger point and a heavier weight.
Setting the Roboto to Light 300 weight and 13 px made the text look similar to
the enigmail.net FAQ. Switching the weight to Regular 400 helped quite a bit.
Bumping the size to even just 14px really helped and 16px was really sharp. In
Firefox 400 weight 14 px looked great. With either I felt Roboto was the among
the easiest to read of the first dozen or so font samples at the same weight,
size and text.
BTW, my regular browser is google-chrome on Linux, but I get a blurry
font on Firefox as well.
My first guess was that the issue was with missing fonts and lower quality
rendering support I'm historically use to on Linux, but seeing something similar
in Chrome on Windows makes me think that these fonts just work better when they
have more dots to work with, either through a DPI rich display or by cranking up
the font weight and size.
Maybe Harald and Matthew can find a font+weight+size combination at Google Fonts
that doesn't look blurry. Maybe Roboto 400 14 works well enough for them.
https://fonts.google.com/
Thank you for your time and attention creating the great software and support
site,
--
Jacob Anawalt
Gecko Software, Inc.
[email protected]
435-752-8026
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