[kwlug-disc] KWLUG webhost migration: Tuesday March 14

[Chris Irwin]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Ronald Barnes <ron at ronaldbarnes.ca> wrote:

> Bob Jonkman wrote on 2017-03-15 04:04 PM:
>
> Here's an amusing thing: Have a look at the KWLUG logo, first in
>> Firefox (or some other Gecko browser), then in Chromium (or some other
>> Webkit browser). The font for "LinuX" is rendered as sans-serif in
>> Gecko, but avec-serif in Webkit.
>>
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> They look the same to me in Firefox and Chromium.
>

The SVGs are using "Arial Black".

Rendering would depend fonts installed, fallbacks configured, defaults, and
preferences (likely including biases from both fontconfig and web browser
in there, as well). I get a blocky text that is consistent between both
Chrome and Firefox, and looks like neither of Bob's screenshots.

I don't have the MS fonts installed, but I do have the following, which
looks somewhat like you'd expect Arial Black to:

$ fc-match "Arial Black"
ArchivoBlack.ttf: "Archivo Black" "Regular"



> The !Fediverse pays attention to us[1]: @vinz at gnusocial.de recommends
>> we convert the logo's fonts into paths to avoid display issues.
>>
>
> It appears they already *are* converted to paths (SVG file).
>

The logo is an SVG file, but the text is just text, not yet traced to
paths. This 1/2 of the markup for the letter X, for example:

<textxml:space="preserve"style="font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:200px;font-family:'Arial
Black';-inkscape-font-specification:'Arial
Black';fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1;stroke:none"x="560"y="853.50507"id="text3489"><tspansodipodi:role="line"id="tspan3491"x="560"y="853.50507">X</tspan></text>


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Chris Irwin
<chris at chrisirwin.ca>
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