Hey all,

I have no experience working with fonts, so I need some help. I tried to google this issue, but couldn't find any reference to this. When viewing certain websites in either chrome or iceweasel (so I suspect it has to do with whatever renders fonts in my Debian system, not the browsers), I get the results in the attachment. One stroke in the letters, 'h', 'n', and 'u' are gray. I can read it fine, I just want to know why it is, why those letters specifically, and if I can fix it.

my uname -a: Linux debian 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The url for the sample: http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/21/politi...nion-analysis/

Note that the bold text is not distorted. The weirdness is, as I can recall, always confined to the main text of the article. Even if side links appear to be in the same font, they look normal.

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Try booting from a "Live CD" distro and see if the problem persists. Also check that your graphics card is driving your monitor at its correct "native" resolution.

Do you have any display problem when using a text-editor, word-processor, or terminal? If the problem is confined to your browsers, it may be that you just need to set a different default font for them.

That really is a horrible site! It takes forever to display on my Opera, doesn't work with my old Firefox, and the source code is a mess.

I'm on a Chromebook running just vanilla, stable ChromeOS and I'm seeing the same issue when I followed your link. It might just be a poor font choice on CNN's part.

I might be able to look at it from a Windows computer later today, if I get a chance I'll let you know how it turns out.

My Debian 8 / XFCE 4.10 / Iceweasel looks fine on that link.

First try the Anti-aliasing, Hinting, and Sub-pixel order:
Settings Manager->Appearance->Fonts(tab)->
Mine works best with Enable anti-aliasing, Medium Hinting, and RGB sub-pixel ordering. Yours may differ.

If that is not the issue, then maybe it's a font issue. I have quite a bit of fonts installed, but a good basic set are:

fonts-freefont-ttf
fonts-liberation
fonts-opensymbol
fonts-dejavu

See this post by @Earnestly on the Arch forums:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic....96724#p1496724

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