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Chrome text is very bad


When I visit jsfiddle using Chrome the text is unreadable. Firefox and IE do not have this problem.

Here is a screen shot of the image in chrome, I do not even know what to call this font:

https://i.sstatic.net/O7ZRX.jpg

When I copy and paste the text into notepad the text displays just fine.

I have also found that if I disable the css property, text-rendering:optimizeLegibility; with the web-dev tool the text will display fine until I refresh the page.

Here is a screen shot in Chrome when I disable text-rendering:optimizeLegibility;

https://i.sstatic.net/0Xn2e.jpg

I even uninstalled then re-installed chrome and it did not help.

Does anyone know why this is happening?


Solution

  • To resolve this problem I editted the file that jameh pointed to above.

    The file is called Custom.css and I found it at this location:

    C:\Users[User Name]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User StyleSheets

    In that file I added the following:

    @font-face { font-family: 'helvetica'; src: local('Arial'); }

    The issue seems to be with helvetica fonts and the text-rendering:optimizeLegibility CSS property. I am not sure why this is an issue but this was how I resolved it.