Help me diagnose this font issue
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Hi folks,
I'm having repeated font problems on Chrome. When I first open Chrome everything is fine, but after a while (a day, or few days perhaps) some of the tabs start to look like this:
WTDWTF is consistently one set of tabs that does this, but it's not the only one; I also get it in Asana, which we use for our task lists:
But not all sites seem to be affected (probably because of their font choices, I suppose.)
Opening a new tab doesn't help, even if I close all tabs from the site. I have to close Chrome altogether and open it again.
What should I be looking at/for to work out why this is happening? I'm a data guy, presentation is not my strong suit, so I'm going to need some hand-holding here. (I can manage to open the inspector and poke around. But I don't know what to poke at.)
ETA: Chrome 57.0.2987.133 on Windows 7 Pro SP1.
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@Scarlet_Manuka Wow, I haven't seen fonts that ugly since the "Linux goes desktop, 2000 edition"
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It may be similar to this issue: https://coderwall.com/p/9tecwq/fix-poor-font-rendering-in-chrome-on-windows
tldr: Turn on cleartype in your system settings, and "Disable accelerated 2D Canvas" in Chrome settings (I think it's under chrome://flags)
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@wft said in Help me diagnose this font issue:
@Scarlet_Manuka Wow, I haven't seen fonts that ugly since the "Linux goes desktop, 2000 edition"
Yeah, as you can imagine it's pretty painful to read when it goes like that.
@hungrier said in Help me diagnose this font issue:
Turn on cleartype in your system settings, and "Disable accelerated 2D Canvas" in Chrome settings (I think it's under chrome://flags)
Thanks for that. I already had cleartype on, but I've disabled the accelerated 2D canvas and we'll see if that makes a difference.
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@Scarlet_Manuka Hmmm. Not only is the problem back, but now it's happening even on a freshly started instance. I'm currently looking at it over a remote desktop connection but I don't see that that should make a difference.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Help me diagnose this font issue:
remote desktop connection
That's the cause. And it puts Chrome into low-quality mode permanently, even when RD disconnects. I forget what you need to do to fix it, it might just require a refresh, but you might need to close the tab.
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@sloosecannon said in Help me diagnose this font issue:
And it puts Chrome into low-quality mode permanently, even when RD disconnects.
I remote in from home fairly regularly, so that would certainly explain why it keeps coming back.
@sloosecannon said in Help me diagnose this font issue:
but you might need to close the tab.
As per upthread, I have to close Chrome altogether - closing and reopening the tab does nothing. Also, Chrome startup is locked to our corporate start page so I have to manually restore my previous session each time.
Although it occurs to me that I'm not sure whether I've tried opening a new tab and navigating instead of reopening the closed tab. Perhaps that will do the trick, I'll give it a go next time I'm not remoting in.
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@Scarlet_Manuka if you're using Chrome on both ends, you can use Chrome Remote Desktop (by Google).
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@ben_lubar said in Help me diagnose this font issue:
@Scarlet_Manuka if you're using Chrome on both ends, you can use Chrome Remote Desktop (by Google).
That might not fix it - TeamViewer had the same issue...
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in Help me diagnose this font issue:
I'm currently looking at it over a remote desktop connection
You need to turn on "Font smoothing". It's not usually enabled by default.
Note that if the connection speed is set to "Detect connection speed automatically", you won't be able to change those settings, so pick the most appropriate speed from the dropdown and then customize the options how you like.
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@Scarlet_Manuka your browser has Lupus
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@anotherusername said in Help me diagnose this font issue:
so pick the most appropriate speed from the dropdown
TIL: @anotherusername is connected with Milwaukee PC