On several Google sites the fonts are rendered ugly in Firefox and Google Chrome under Windows 7 and 8:
I turned off Clear Type because most of the fonts are ugly with it.
Firefox and Chrome have the problem. If the problem is caused by a missing font the font should be substituted by another font, shouldn't it? In which case I would then need to find out what the missing font is and go download it.
In the meantime I installed all Google fonts from https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory but this didn't help. Either the Google sites with ugly fonts don't use one of these fonts or this ugly font is always ugly without smoothing or high DPI.
Is there any way to fix this?
Best Answer
Looks like you don't have font-smoothing and ClearType turned on in which case certain fonts will look terrible.
In Windows 7 go to the Control Panel and choose View By Large Icons then choose Display->Adjust ClearType text and check Turn on ClearType. This should also enable font-smoothing.