After upgrade 5.10 to 6.7, some users see text boldness inverted.

Mike Diehn

Weird right?

OK, when I look at pages in this guys personal space on my workstation, they look just fine. But at his computer, in Firefox and in Chrome, it's like someone flipped the boldness bit on all the text in his paragraphs. What's bold on my screen is normal on his, what's normal on mine is bold on his.

I have two reports of this so far. Subject One had already restarted all his browsers so they'd (we think) get fresh CSS and JS files from the server.

These folks are working on CentOS 7.3 with recent browsers.

I'm using Mint 17 and the same pages look fine to me.

Any thoughts?

Mike Diehn

SOLVED

I used Chrome's devtools to study the font-family list in the CSS for a section of weird text.  Then used the editting in flight feature to remove the font names one by one from the front of the font-family list. When we got to Roboto and removed it, it all looked normal again, which told me that Roboto was the first font in the list that our computer has installed.

So I removed these fonts that were on his system:

  google-roboto-common 1.2-2.el7.nux.noarch
  google-roboto-condensed-fonts 1.2-2.el7.nux.noarch
  google-roboto-fonts 1.2-2.el7.nux.noarch

And now it's all good.

There may be other solutions - like updating those font packages, but this is good enough for me. I'll put out the word Monday about this and ask if anyone else sees it weird and if they do, I'll look for an update.