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Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Posted by Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Is the font screwed up for everyone else in the forums?

This font is really screwed up. I see caps and non caps in almost every word. I hope treehouse didn't pick this font on purpose because it really sucks.

Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points
Colin Marshall
Colin Marshall
32,861 Points

Everything looks the same/normal for me over here. Are you getting the same results in different browsers?

4 Answers

Christopher Denny
Christopher Denny
10,460 Points
Christopher Denny
Christopher Denny
10,460 Points

I just tried in Chrome, Firefox, and Edge and all of them worked just fine. What browser are you using and what OS?

Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points
Sue Dough
Sue Dough
35,800 Points

Here is what I see. Every other site works fine. http://imgur.com/xLRWJJp

What OS? Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. Linux is the answer.

Christopher Denny
Christopher Denny
10,460 Points
Christopher Denny
Christopher Denny
10,460 Points

The reason why I ask is that while I myself love Linux, it uses a different font-type than other OS's that can really change how things look. There is of course the possibility of it being a fallback font, but I wouldn't assume that to be the case here. If you modify your system font, does it effect how it looks on the page? (Sorry, I know it's tedious, just thinking through the steps)

Ted Sumner
PLUS
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points
Ted Sumner
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points

Yes, the text is messy in my Linux Mint machine in both Chromium and Firefox.

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Yep, looks like it's an issue with how Linux handles font kerning for the vast majority of custom web fonts, I looked around and couldn't find any posts with a solid fix.

Ted Sumner
Ted Sumner
Courses Plus Student 17,967 Points

I just deal with it. I have bigger issues to resolve like black screen when I try to log in from the GUI. I have to go to the non-GUI interface and log in. When I run startx I get no hardware acceleration mode and some other annoying bugs. But is all basically works.....