Hard to read Gitbook Font

Hey, I dont know if I’m the only who has issues with the font but the custom font applied to: Welcome | Protocol and other gitbooks is very hard to read. It looks like the font is not generated properly on the frontend as it looks very “wavy”.

Polite feedback, regards.

Thanks for reporting, we’re looking to this.

Could you precise:

  • on which OS you are
  • on which browser you are

Cheers

OS:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
Release:        24.04
Codename:       noble

Using the Brave Browser (based on chromium):

Brave Browser 139.1.81.136
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Thanks a lot! While we are looking at it, maybe you would want to try with another browser, to check if it works better. Not perfectly convenient, I agree, we’ll try to fix that anyway. Thanks for your patience

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I have checked this on a windows 10 version and the font generates correctly for the same brave browser version and also firefox. Issue seems to be on a Ubuntu 24.04 host.

Thx, that’s interesting information!

@un5had0w
A Google search shows lots of posts on various forums like reddit where people have had font display issues on Ubuntu / Brave. One response suggests:

If you have Brave running as an “X11” app instead of a “Wayland” app, Wayland’s fractional scaling can result in some weird artifacts, such as blurry fonts. Unfortunately, this seems to be the default (it was for me when I installed Brave in Fedora).

Go to brave://flags/#ozone-platform-hint and set the value to “Wayland”, then restart the browser.

You can check which Brave is using by going to brave://gpu/ and searching for “Ozone platform”. You can also confirm on this page that your video drivers are working for hardware video decoding.

Let us know if that helps resolve the issue! If not, also try other solutions in that thread first!

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Looks like brave is forcing x11 after changing configs but will have a tinker about. Thanks for the insight!