Design : problem with main font

regisrob
I just want to report a problem with font display on Internet Explorer 7 and 8, Chrome 5 and Opera 10.60 on Windows. The aliasing of "Lucida Grande" and "Lucida Sans" is quite troublesome as texts are almost unreadable (it is worst in Chrome and Opera). Have you ever encountered this bug ?
  • bdarcus
    You need to be more specific. "Font display" where? How is it "troublesome"?
  • regisrob
    Where ?
    - almost all the texts in Zotero website (menus, contents).

    How is it troublesome ?
    - lack of readability because of the aliasing
    - bad effect on the overall design

    For example, texts in Trebuchet MS are all clear but the display of "Lucida Grande" and "Lucida Sans" are buggy.

    Maybe it is a "local" problem (fonts installed on my computer).
  • dstillman
    Maybe it is a "local" problem (fonts installed on my computer).
    It is, though you're not the first to experience font issues:

    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/9878/about-the-font-style-of-zotero-website/

    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/7642/website-my-library-and-group-library-layout/#Item_4

    But on the vast majority of systems the font should look really quite nice. We may be able to fix it if you provide a screenshot and more details on the fonts you have installed, though.
  • regisrob
    I put some screenshots here :
    - http://twitpic.com/27twkp (screenshots of Chrome 5, Opera 10.60, and list of Lucida fonts installed in Windows).
    It is better in Internet Explorer but not as clear as in Firefox.
    I also noticed that the font rendering is quite better (but not perfect) in those browsers when the ClearType anti-aliasing is activated in Windows.

    Thank you for your answers.
  • dstillman
    Well, you need to have ClearType enabled, for starters. That's just modern font rendering.

    But you can try disabling Lucida Sans and Lucida Sans Unicode (and their variants) in various configurations to see exactly what's happening on your system.

    In any case, the font rendering your screenshots show is clearly broken.
  • dstillman
    My guess is that if you disable Lucida Sans, the normal text will look a lot better, with or without ClearType. zotero.org uses

    'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Verdana, sans-serif;
    for a font stack, but we probably want to skip Lucida Sans for normal weight text and use it just for bold and italic.
  • dstillman
    You could also just try their demo page (scaling the text zoom down in your browser) without disabling anything.
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