Bad font rendering on Windows

[edmael]

On Windows all the themes have some little bugs: the main one is the bad font rendering.

Here's a screenshot to show you what I mean (don't mind all the blank, I just obfuscated some informations. To see the issure just compare the readability of the Thunderbird welcome message and all the other font in that screenshot).

Changing the font-family kind of solves the issue but the theme is not as good as it should be.

I think that's a problem of Windows font rendering but it would be nice to have some kind of fallback or different theme to support Windows Users.

[spymastermatt]

@edmael Could you try the new files and let me know if the issue is fixed?

[edmael]

Sadly, it seems the issue is not solved.

[evemassacre]

Same here. Which really is a shame because this is such good work!

[ollbi]

I have te same issue. Rendered font is very bad for now :-(

[spymastermatt]

Hey all, sorry for being quiet for the past few days, I have been working on a big update (coming tomorrow hopefully) which fixes almost all open issues. After that I will be looking for a font with better rendering on Windows and better accent character support (issue #13).

In the meantime, if you comment the font-family line under the * section, you will get your system font back.

[princejosuah]

Hello @spymastermatt and thanks for your work.

Same issue here. I've tried to replace the whole font thing with something else (Roboto). Downloaded and changed the font files (ttf, woff, woff2, svg) in the appropriate folder and changed accordingly in the userChrome.css. This is my code, just in case:

@font-face {
   font-family: 'Roboto';
    src: url('fonts/RobotoRegular.woff2') format('woff2'),
         url('fonts/RobotoRegular.woff') format('woff'),
         url('fonts/RobotoRegular.ttf') format('truetype'),
         url('fonts/RobotoRegular.svg#Roboto_Regular') format('svg');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

To no avail.

Commenting the 'font-family' line does not do the trick either.

Impatiently waiting for your update.

[spymastermatt]

Hi everyone. Please download that latest version. Whilst I don't think it will fix your font issues, it does allow you to choose a font to use by editing a variable in userChrome.css. I am away for a week now but I will look into the font rendering issue when I get back

[Tromzy]

I can confirm the bad font rendering in Windows 10 (really crispy, like no anti-aliasing), but I haven't tested with the updated version yet.

[k1l1]

If this is still an Issue: After tweaking it a bit, I have no Problem under Windows 10. just uncomment ... in userChrome.css :root { /---- General Options ----/ --default-font: var(--system-font); /* Change to var(--system-font) to use your default font, or specify a font name / /--menu-text-color: MenuText;*/

/---- Highlight Colors - Used if more specific ones aren't specified below ----/ /--highlight-color: Highlight;/ /--highlight-text-color: HighlightText;*/