Forum font gone walkies (2)

JonB

I am still unsure why, having explicitly installed Titillium Web font apparently in case that is necessary, it is not prepared to pick that up locally? Nor why I believe my two Windows 11 machines are badly affected but my one Windows 10 one does not seem to be, or picks a sans-serif font?

From where we are now, if Qt.io are not acting on this and I (wish to) stick to Chrome is there anything I can do to make it pick the right font or at least a sans-serif one?

TomZ

@JonB said in Forum font gone walkies (2):

From where we are now, if Qt.io are not acting on this

It is clearly a bug on their side;
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-fonts-3/#font-fetching-requirements

The implications of this for authors are that fonts will typically not be loaded cross-origin unless authors specifically takes steps to permit cross-origin loads.

In the meantime I'm wondering (never checked) if there are plugins for your browser that allows overriding specific css stuff. In this case the font used.

JonB

@TomZ
Hmm, let's hope that someone looks at this thread then....

Meanwhile, since it works for me on some machines' Chrome but not others, is there a (security?) setting I may have in one Chrome but not the other which would allow through this CORS issue on only one of them?

KH-219Design

I got an email "[Qt Forum] Digest for 2023/11/27" two days ago that listed this forum topic as the top item.

I did not visit the forum that day, but I thought to myself: "someone posting about the forum itself? and its font? that's... unusual"

So today I visit the forum and lo and behold (WTF!) my eyes are also boggled by this newsprint-looking font.

For the record, I am using:

Firefox 119.0.1 (as Snap for Ubuntu)
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Jammy

SGaist

Hi,

Well... For some days I had something looking like Times New Roman as well but since yesterday, I think, it got back to normal.

JonB

@SGaist said in Forum font gone walkies (2):

but since yesterday, I think, it got back to normal.

But how??!! :)
(And I think you are a Mac anyway, so doubtless it won't help me!)

hskoglund

I just tried on my Mac (running Sonoma 14.1.1)
This forum post on Safari: Screenshot 2023-11-29 at 19.20.02.png
On Chrome:

On Firefox:
Screenshot 2023-11-29 at 19.21.46.png

JonB

@hskoglund
I am Chrome-only and Windows-only. But my Chrome looks like your Firefox. :(
2 are Windows 11 and bad, one is Windows 10 and is good but that might be Chrome settings, I don't know.

SGaist

@JonB Sorry, I forgot to say that I was using Firefox when it happened.

JonB

@SGaist
Yes, but you are using Mac, and all my artistic friends who do tell me Macs just work (unlike PCs/Windows) ;-)

Whichever, the problem is happening to a variety of people on a variety of platforms/browsers. I wouldn't normally be a pain about this sort of thing, but I really find the serif font difficult for a forum and my eyes.

SGaist

@JonB You're not a pain. One of the goal of the forum them is to be as pleasing as possible for everybody.

Redman

@JonB Win11 Microsoft Edge. Same problem.

JonB

Any comment from anyone involved in Qt.io webservices? :)

Chris Kawa

It was ok for me until I read this topic and pressed Shift+F5 to reload without cache and now the fonts are missing for me too. Looks like some problem with cross domain references.

JonB

Yay, I seem to have a sans-serif font back! Windows/Chrome.

KH-219Design

normal font has returned for me, too. phew. we made it, everybody. thanks for the solidarity :)

Firefox 119.0.1 (as Snap for Ubuntu)
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Jammy