601316 - letters in chrome cuddle too closely (kerning, text)

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Note the "St" in Stephen and "ro" in Chromatic.

http://grab.by/grabs/9fbaf1def8a32a71f3c89b94da40248c.png

I also see some odd spacing in the word Firefox, which appears periodically in my tabstrip:

http://grab.by/grabs/d4411af3502fa9c49a047aae25667bf7.png

The "re" are too close for a PG theme, and "fo" have this heartbreaking chasm between them.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

1)  Does disabling dwrite help?
2)  Does putting:

      * { -moz-font-feature-settings: "liga=0" }

    in your userChrome.css help?

Comment 2

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

dwrite isn't enabled for me (some driver issue I'm sure).  Changing summary because it also appears in the search box (though not in the URL bar).

I'll try userChrome in a bit.