Yes, I know. Font rendering (particularly sans serif fonts) in Linux is well....notoriously bad compared to Windows. It's true in bouncing back and forth between Windows 10 and Linux Mint I can't help but notice that the fonts in Linux look especially bad in each post of the individual content of each thread. Particularly black fonts on a white background.
While most other aspects of the forum's fonts are not great in Linux, they're still acceptable in comparison.
In Firefox I can turn off a website's ability to control the font, but even this function doesn't improve the quality/aliasing of this particular font to any degree either. And the browser I use equally if not more these days is "Brave". Which does seem to render fonts in general a little better than Firefox, but doesn't allow me to comparatively control a website's fonts.
Too bad y'all couldn't experiment with changing whatever particular font is specified in the style sheet just to see if it would show up as an improvement. But yeah, it's no secret that only a handful of members are using Linux, and they may or may not be concerned with how fonts are anti-aliased. Just though I'd mention it anyways. Just looking at my post makes me cringe.
I tried copying it as I see it in my browser, but it rescales and reduces the text and anti-aliasing it so that it looks inherently better as a graphics attachment than as actual text. Whether using lossless or compressed file formats. Defeating the whole point of showing how bad it really looks.
In essence that you have to see it for yourself in Linux to appreciate my post. Otherwise viewed in Windows it would sound like I'm nit-picking. Interestingly enough if you increase the font size in the browser at 110%, they begin to appear much better. But then it feels like I'm reading a children's book.
Ugh. Kobyashi-Maru...the no-win scenario.
While most other aspects of the forum's fonts are not great in Linux, they're still acceptable in comparison.
In Firefox I can turn off a website's ability to control the font, but even this function doesn't improve the quality/aliasing of this particular font to any degree either. And the browser I use equally if not more these days is "Brave". Which does seem to render fonts in general a little better than Firefox, but doesn't allow me to comparatively control a website's fonts.
Too bad y'all couldn't experiment with changing whatever particular font is specified in the style sheet just to see if it would show up as an improvement. But yeah, it's no secret that only a handful of members are using Linux, and they may or may not be concerned with how fonts are anti-aliased. Just though I'd mention it anyways. Just looking at my post makes me cringe.
I tried copying it as I see it in my browser, but it rescales and reduces the text and anti-aliasing it so that it looks inherently better as a graphics attachment than as actual text. Whether using lossless or compressed file formats. Defeating the whole point of showing how bad it really looks.
In essence that you have to see it for yourself in Linux to appreciate my post. Otherwise viewed in Windows it would sound like I'm nit-picking. Interestingly enough if you increase the font size in the browser at 110%, they begin to appear much better. But then it feels like I'm reading a children's book.
Ugh. Kobyashi-Maru...the no-win scenario.
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