545377 - Poorly readable font on getfirebug.com

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Websites Graveyard :: getfirebug.com, defect)

Description

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

Attachment: Screenhost of getfirebug.com from Windows Vista

The page uses TitilliumMaps font that is poorly readable on Windows.
See the attached screenshot.

Could we use another one?

Honza

Comment 1

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

et tu, Honza?

Comment 2

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

What is "et tu"?

Comment 3

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

hehe. Sorry. :)

CC'ing neil.

Not sure what the best thing to do here is. We can try replacing Titillium with Trebuchet MS or keep hunting for a font that works. I'm a little bummed that Droid Sans didn't work out, but then, it looked OK on my machine. Titillium too, but the different font rendering is a problem.

Comment 4

[Rob Campbell [:rc] (:robcee)]

another alternative is playing with the font weights with titillium maps. Adding a heavier weight (800) and increasing the font size slightly (from 1.4 to 1.6em) on the callout blocks makes it a bit heavier.

Comment 5

[John J. Barton]

I tried to fix this by commenting out all the uses of "Titillium" font in styles/master.css, but this change had no effect.

Comment 6

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

Attachment: Another screen copy with TitilliumMaps

I am now seeing "TitilliumMaps" in the place, but the result isn't much better for me. I am attaching screenshot of what I see.

Honza

Comment 7

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

The display problem can easily be solved on Windows by enabling ClearType.

Comment 8

[williscj007]

This is the first time, I hear about a font called Titillium. However, I know visit  website and it was fine. You've probably changed it yet.

CJ - Tech Geek <http://softchamp.com/news/>

Comment 9

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

The font is still TitilliumMaps, though you probably have some anti-aliasing mechanism enabled on your OS.

The site should get a facelift anyway, though one quick solution could be to replace the font by Open Sans, which is the default font for Mozilla related websites[1].

Sebastian

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/styleguide/websites/sandstone/typefaces/

Comment 10

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Firebug is dead, so let's rest it in peace.

Sebastian