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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
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Subject: Re: Poor default fonts in Firefox
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2018 17:38:17 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2018-01-07, Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:

>>> > I have a normal ports installation and the above page renders fine.
>>> > Can you please post somewhere a screen of your FF.
>>>
>>> http://shell.uugrn.org/~naddy/bbcnews.xwd.xz
>>
>> Mine is here: http://www.unixarea.de/my.xwd.gz
>>
>> I'm not an expert of fonts and rendering ... comments?
>
> Well, that is some vector font and definitely not the bitmap font
> that you get by default.

PS:
Firefox tells you what font it uses: select a piece of text,
right-click, select "Inspect Element", in the bottom right select
"Fonts".

- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de