Weird font in Swiftfox

Bug #113125 reported by Felix Heinonen
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Bug Description

The font when you view bug descriptions and comments is weird. It looks awful! This happens only with Launchpad.
Everything looks fine in Firefox, but not in Swiftfox. I installed it using the deb from http://getswiftfox.com/debian.htm

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Diogo Matsubara (matsubara) wrote :

Hello,
thank you for the bug report. Could you attach a screenshot please?

Changed in launchpad:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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James Henstridge (jamesh) wrote :

The bug descriptions and comments use "font-family: monospace", which is a generic font name that means "the user's preferred fixed width font". Is it possible that you've got a weird preferred fixed width font in Swiftfox but not Firefox?

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Felix Heinonen (fheinonen) wrote :

I checked the font settings in Swiftfox. I compared them with Firefox and they are same.
Sending the screenshot later.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiftfox

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James Henstridge (jamesh) wrote :

Okay, that page says that Swiftfox does not use the same font rendering as the builds found on most Linux distros. So it is quite possible that it picks a different default.

That said, if your browser uses a font you don't like when a web page asks for the preferred monospace font, perhaps you should change your preferences.

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Felix Heinonen (fheinonen) wrote :
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Diogo Matsubara (matsubara) wrote :

Hello fheinonen,

thanks for the screenshots.

Have you tried James' suggestion change your browser preferences?

Cheers.

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Felix Heinonen (fheinonen) wrote :

The thing is that the settings are the same in Firefox and Swiftfox, as you can see from the screenshots. FF and SF are using the same font for monospace.

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Felix Heinonen (fheinonen) wrote :

Changed the font to arial and everything looks fine. Anyways I think this should fixed, because most users won't know what to do.

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Felix Heinonen (fheinonen) wrote :

Gets even weirder. I changed back to monospace default and now everything looks fine.

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Felix Heinonen (fheinonen) wrote :
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Diogo Matsubara (matsubara) wrote :

Closing as the reporter solved the problem

Changed in launchpad:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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