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[Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jan,
Yes, you are right. I see

LiberationSansBold,arial
LiberationSansRegular,arial


in light_blue.css




On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Jan Henrik Øverland
<janhenrik.overland@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Jason, I guess you are missing that we use @font-face now. Are you sure
> the CSS says LiberationSans and not LiberationSansRegular /
> LiberationSansBold? The font pack is created
> by http://www.fontsquirrel.com/ ;. It shouldn't really matter whether you
> have Liberation Sans installed or not. I have no idea why this happens on
> Windows and not Ubuntu.
>
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:36, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> I actually have LiberationSans installed on my Windoze machine which
>> may explain why this is happening. My CSS says that the font should be
>> rendered in LiberationSans, not Arial. Changing LiberationSans to
>> Arial/Helvetica works fine and the "s" appears as normal.
>>
>> The weird thing is that it displays Arial for just a fraction of a
>> second, and then seems to change to LiberationSans.
>>
>> Seems likely a weird combination on my system, but not sure.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jason
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>> > I suspect this just shows that you are a good person :-)
>> >
>> > By which I'm thinking that maybe you are using a clean linux without any
>> > "grey" ms fonts installed. These bits of text are rendered in arial font
>> > according to the css, falling back to sans-serif
>> >
>> > Could be your browser is font-substituting something for arial which is
>> > not
>> > quite ok. (Arial is a virus distributed by default on windows)
>> >
>> > So we could just say use windoze and all will be well :-)  Or install
>> > ms-corefonts which I always do but I know its dodgy legally.  Or suggest
>> > a
>> > free font in the css, falling back to arial.  Or see if you can figure
>> > out
>> > what chrome is substituting.
>> >
>> > Now I've just read your mail.  Weird.  Doesn't make sense that the
>> > browser
>> > would be messing with a font that is installed in the OS.  Can you use
>> > firebug and play with the font setting?  Try Helvetica.
>> >
>> > Cheers
>> > Bob
>> >
>> >
>> > On 6 June 2011 10:01, Jason Pickering <jason.p.pickering@xxxxxxxxx>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Yeah, a bit of a kooky title for an email, and a very small issue, but
>> >> the latest trunk version seems all "s" seemed to be somewhat smaller.
>> >> Is this just a browser thing with Chrome? Any body else seen this? See
>> >> attached screen shot.
>> >>
>> >> Regards,
>> >> Jason
>> >>
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