Here's Chrome now on Windows with Helvetica Neue removed: Any designers want to weigh-in the comments? I think the best solution (even though I'm deleting Helvetica Neue) would be to use an explicit Web Font in your stylesheets when possible rather than relying on a system font like Helvetica, even though they are the ultimate fallback. While it's obvious it would have major effects in retrospect, I had never realized that a machine-wide "common" font installation like this could mess up font rendering in my browser. The Stylesheet said "hey, gimme Helvetica" and the browser said "Cool, here's one." It's just not a Web Font, and while it's great for the giant sizes I needed for my talk, it's lousy for the web.īoth IE and Chrome were picking up that my system had a Helvetica available on the system and used it instead. The Helvetica Neue font that I installed for my presentation is very poorly hinted (if at all) at small sizes like the one's being used. However, Helvetica is super common font that is mentioned in Stylesheets - often explicitly when CSS is designed on a Mac - and Arial on Windows usually steps in as the replacement on Windows. It's a lovely font and I think it worked nicely for my talk and looked great in PowerPoint. Well, what's changed is that I gave a talk at Xamarin Evolve this week, and in preparation, installed Helvetica Neue. What's going on here? What's changed? Doesn't it seem like "What's changed?" is the question we engineer-types ask the most? Once I had Helvetica Neue installed, my chrome started giving me weird font for very popular and reputed websites.
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I also happened to be at the Xamarin Evolve conference this week, so I mentioned it to the team down there, thinking they could pick another font.įast forward, and I'm on the plane, checking my email with Gmail Offline (the HTML5 offline version of Gmail) and noticed this. I am a part-time web designer and I downloaded and installed Helvetica Neue because of its popularity among web designers. In fact, Jin Yang ( had to abandon Montserrat, our Web Font of choice, for a more conservative one whilst doing the redesign due to Google Chrome's poor font rendering on Windows. I emailed and mentally blamed Google Chrome as it's well know they've been having trouble with their Web Font rendering of late. The hinting is OK, but the font is somehow "wrong." Note the subtle"bites" that have been taken out of the g and s, but the c is OK.
A few days ago, I visited the website and noticed this.
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