Epiphany Font Rendering Heavily Broken

If you take a look at the attached screenshot. The font in the webpage should be rendered exactly the same as the font in the menubars of epiphany.

It's both the same font Bitstream Vera Sans.

To my opinion this should be considered a release blocking bug. Nearly unreadable web pages are not acceptable.

Correction, it's not entirely the same font, the interface font is Vera Sans, and the webpage font is Vera Serif...

But it's still very clear how fuzzy the webpage is.

Thanks for your bug. Do you have the same issue with firefox?

Yes, Firefox' font rendering is crap too...

reassigning to firefox then, might be some fontconfig conf issue too

isn't this a duplicate of bug 63403?
ie is it fixed if you use full hinting?
Check there aren't fontconfig settings conflict also (check that you don't have a ~/.fonts.conf file, or that it matches gnome font settings).

Right, epiphany behaves like gnome-terminal. When using medium hinting in Xft resources (gnome settings), the contents look fuzzy, but not the menu.
In firefox though, both are fuzzy.
But I'm not sure how you can know how medium hinting should look. Personally, I don't even know why it exists in the first place, because it either looks like low hinting, or full hinting depending on the application used.
Anyway, fontconfig settings are very very confusing, I play with them for a while, and I still don't understand the logic, if there is any.
But I don't think it's the problem here. Apparently, all fonts aren't rendered the same way, but in the end, I believe all these fonts render with freetype. So I assume something differ in how freetype is called, and that's done with other libraries, right?
If we could know what firefox menu and contents, gnome-terminal and epiphany contents use, and what the others use, maybe it would help investigating this issue?

Hmm indeed... setting it to full hinting solves my problem, font are now rendered nicely in Epiphany!

I had medium hinting set because it looked slightly better on my TFT with some fonts... But full is fine too...

Thanks for the tip!

Is the bug considered fixed now?

Well, no, it's a duplicate of bug 63403, and no one looked at it yet.

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