Problem with a quality of fonts in Image Show GK4

Hello,

we use a modified version of the standard Intro module (Image Show GK4) and observerd a problem with font quality on some particular version of Chrome on Windows; this problem doesn't occur on an older version of Chrome on Linux.

Problem description: font borders aren't smooth enough, some pixels are visible. It should be easy for you to reproduce this problem since it occurs also on your demo webpage for this template::
http://demo.gavick.com/joomla25/creativity/

This is how it should look like:

lin-pixeloza.png

This is how it looks like; please notice sharp borders:

win-pixeloza.png

We tried various fonts, but nothing helped. It's important for us to support Chrome on Windows well, so is there any solution or workaround?

Regards,
Tomasz Hulak

We are using google fonts:
Open Sans
http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family= ... 00,600,700
for those headings.
It looks like a browser has some kind of rendering problem and there is nothing we can do about that. You could fallback to save webfonts like Tahoma, Arial, Verdana - without using google fonts there should be no rendering glitches.

Thanks for quick response.

Unfortunately this problem occurs also with standard fonts:

Arial.png

Times.png

tahoma.png

Moreover the same fonts outside this module look correct. It makes me think the problem is with the Image Show GK4.

Is it the current Chrome (nevest version)?

Well, I've just found out that yesterday Goggle released a new version, so no, I had the previous version ; ) It was 35.0.1916 from 20th June. After upgrade to 36.0.1985.125 m the problem still occurs.

Ok, Ill report that to our devteam.

One of our developers mentioned that:
36.0.1985.125
is a beta version not a public release, which might cause some of the problems.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome

Stable release 36.0.1985.125 (July 16, 2014; 1 day ago[1])

Even if it's not true - the problem occured also in the previous version.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chr ... se_history

Is there a chance you could confront the problem with clean, without any settings (with default) chrome?

No, but i checked on three different machines with the newest version of Chrome and every time the problem occured.

http://www.dev-metal.com/fix-ugly-font- ... le-chrome/
It looks like Chrome issue, and till canary (38) version I'm affraid there is nothing anybody can do about it.