Bug 524418 – www-client/chromium-37* and -38* render font-family:Helvetica terribly

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE

[Description Luke-Jr 2014-10-04 02:35:01 UTC]

http://luke.dashjr.org/tmp/screenshots/snapshot119.png (be sure to view without scaling, as scaling tends to hide the ugliness)

<37 rendered GitHub just fine, and removing "Helvetica" from font-family (using Chromium's Inspector thing) lets it render with my default sans-serif (which looks fine). Removing media-fonts/font-adobe-75dpi (which appears to have the "Helvetica" font) does NOT appear to help.

Unfortunately, I've found that since upgrading to 37, downgrading to an older version causes Chromium to lose and refuse to store saved passwords and similar functionality.

[Comment 1 Mike Gilbert 2014-10-04 03:41:11 UTC]

I haven't noticed this problem with google-chrome-{37,38,39}.

I do have bitmap fonts disabled via fontconfig:

% cat /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<!-- Reject bitmap fonts -->
 <selectfont>
  <rejectfont>
   <pattern>
     <patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
   </pattern>
  </rejectfont>
 </selectfont>
</fontconfig>

I do seem to recall an issue in chrome-37 or 38 where chrome was ignoring my anti-aliasing settings, but I worked around that by configuring anti-aliasing in KDE rather than fontconfig.

That doesn't appear to be a problem in chrome 39 in any case.

[Comment 2 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2015-01-18 12:56:02 UTC]

(In reply to Mike Gilbert from comment #1)
> That doesn't appear to be a problem in chrome 39 in any case.

We have 39 in stable now. Please reopen if that still happens with chromium, with more detailed steps to repro (including installed fonts and configs) if possible. Even if you don't have more details but still can repro, please do reopen.