Tahoe Skin - Title in window is blurred and clinched

[SimonF]

Hi there,
I've noticed that the font of the title of a window is blurred
The font-size of the window is 14 px, also the font size of the headerspan of the timeline in the background is 14px.
But the title of the window is very bad to read.
The window-title font seems to be helvetica-neue-bold, helvetica, and the font of the timeline is calibri.

Version: SmartClient_v111p_2017-07-30_Pro
Browser: All tested browsers
* Firefox 54.0.1 (32-Bit),
* Chrome Version 59.0.3071.115 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit),
* Chrome Version 60.0.3112.78 (Offizieller Build) (64-Bit),
* IE 11.0.9600.18738
Skin: Tahoe
Density: Medium
Plattform: Windows 7 Pro with latest patches
We don't have any windows or browser-zoom enabled

Firefox:

Chrome:

IE 11:

This is the problem magnified, I Hope you will see that the first "s" and the first "o" are clinched and that the title is hard to read.


Code for reproduction

Canvas.resizeControls(4);
Canvas.resizeFonts(2);
isc.Timeline.create({
    "width": "400",
    "height": "100%",
    "startDate": new Date(2017, 6, 31),
    "endDate": new Date(2017, 7, 2, 23, 59, 59),
    "headerLevels":
    [{
            "unit": "week"
        }, {
            "unit": "day"
        }
    ],
    "weekPrefix": "PersonTaskNestedView",
    "labelColumnWidth": 50,
    "showControlsBar": false,

});
isc.Window.create({
    "ID": "window_38",
    "left": "100",
    "top": "100",
    "width": "300",
    "autoDraw": true,
    "title": "PersonTaskNestedView"
});

Best regards

[SimonF]

Hi there,
Is there any intermediate result searching for the fix for this issue?
We are now also getting many reports from our customers about the "blurred" headlines.

Maybe a replacement of helvetica-neue-bold with the font corbel would do the job?

Best regards

[SimonF]

Knowing that this is not only a browser issue, but might be also an OS-related issue, I think this font-shouldn't be a default font.
It also renders so bad if i'm opening up the released font:


There seems a lot of issues with the usage of this font. Most of the time the workaround is used to locally replace/remove the Helvetica font. But we cannot distribute this workaround to all our customers.

So maybe there is another font that can be used instead of the helvetica neue bold.
I know, we could do this by our own, but I think this problem has to be solved for all customers of smartclient. Especially in business-environment Windows 7 + Any Browser (because its reproducable with Chrome, Firefox and IE) is a very common choice.

Best regards

[SimonF]

Hi there,
I would like to add a suggestion for a replacement-font.
Using font Helvetica-Neue-Bold:


Using font Open Sans (as webfont downloadable at github)


I think this would be a good replacement-font. Its rendered properly and it's readable with clear lines (how it should be).
Is there any progress with the decision on using helvetica-neue-bold? Or any other solution to this? Or any response from Isomorphic ?

Best regards

[Isomorphic]

We made a change yesterday to address this issue. Please try the nightly build, dated August 23.

Regards
Isomorphic Software

[SimonF]

Thanks for the changes.
I'm confirming the font-change to calibri for window-titles. We do still see the font bug in the section-header.

Best regards

[SimonF]

Same font is seen in he color-selection window, but this will not be used on a daily base.


Best regards

[Isomorphic]

We've made a change which should address these two cases. Please try the next nightly build, dated August 26.

Regards
Isomorphic Software

[SimonF]

Thanks, fix confirmed in SmartClient_v111p_2017-08-27_Pro