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This morning a new font started appearing on the website.

...it BURNSSSS ussss!

Is there some way to fix it from being all blocky and dark?

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Heya, could you please provide more context? This isn't something I'm seeing on our side. If you could provide a screenshot or some browser details, that'd help us troubleshoot the error.


Kinda blurry, smudgy new font.


Note: This seems to affect bold text in forum posts as well. Maybe bold text throughout the forums got, er, extra-bolded?

/a CSS master I ain't


I'm not seeing it in Chrome. What browser are you using?


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I don't see it in Chrome, but I use Firefox more and this font issue looks awful. Like blahpers, I see it in anything bolded, like the Subforum titles on the main forums page, or bolded text in my PbP games.

Silver Crusade

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I'm seeing it also. I really like the new font for normal text that appeared a few days ago, but the bold version is very hard to read today. It's just too 'chubby' to read comfortably. (Firefox)


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Firefox here, and folks have linked it above.


Firefox 61.0.1 (64-bit) here. I do see a little of what Redelia means, but with my eyesight I have fiddled with the font a lot for it to be readable before this, and the "chubbiness" does not bother me.

However I am getting cataract surgery done in October 2018, so with my own fuzzy eyesight cleared up, I may notice it.

-- david


Oh, yeah. The contrast between bold posts and normal posts is just too big.


Sorry, should have mentioned that I'm running Firefox. -_- (I should know better--I consume and occasionally write bug descriptions for a living...!)


Yep, FF 61.0.1 (64-bit) on Win10

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Heya, I just pushed something I think should fix this for Firefox folks. Might take a bit to clear in your caches, but let us know if you still are running into the problem.


Don't know if its related, but teh [bigger] tag no longer works on Forum posts (at least in the gameplay forums for pbp).

It seems to change it to a different font (slightly smaller)... but certainly not bigger.

That font does seem similar to the new bold font that Wei Jei is talking about.


Hmm... and, as an aside...

I just cleared the cache, and restarted my browser (Firefox)... and it did not appear to make a difference on the strange bold font.


EvilMinion wrote:

Hmm... and, as an aside...

I just cleared the cache, and restarted my browser (Firefox)... and it did not appear to make a difference on the strange bold font.

Same problem. :(


I'm using Chrome and the new font still seems to be there for bolded text. Regular text looks fine, though.


I'm still getting the strange bold font also. Definitely uncomfortable to read.


My impression is that there is too big of a jump between the normal/roman font and the bold font.

It's almost as if someone had paired a light and a bold font, skipping the normal entirely.

Grand Lodge

Pathfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Adventure Path Subscriber

The new font just showed up for me in Chrome / mobile. It’s just as awful in bold as others have described here.

Hmm

Dark Archive

it is rather jarring....


Still happening here, too. At least now it's consistently broken! ; )


Some more reports:
- Firefox (Android): Okay-ish. Maybe a little bit too big compared to normal text but survivable.
- Chrome (Android): Same.
- Firefox (PC): Ahhhhrghlll, my EYEZZZZ! Even worse if someone quotes something bold. The light grey and missing space between characters of the bold makes it next to unreadable.


I am still experiencing this problem. (Firefox (PC)) Is anyone else?


Yup. Is this the new normal?


blahpers wrote:
Yup. Is this the new normal?

Gosh, I hope not . . .

Well, folks, looks like it's a toss up. Firefox is faster and doesn't harvest the user's data, but Chrome doesn't have the wonky bold text on Paizo.com. Which browser is better? All of a sudden, we don't know.

Though, I'm 93% sure that downloading Chrome on a Linux box is heretical. So, it looks like I'll be sticking with Firefox.


I thought Chromium was the default browser on most Linux distros these days.


Oh wow, so much extra-bold on the thread list page....

Edit: Hey, at least I can post again!


This problem has gone away for me (Firefox under Linux). Yay!

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