Helvetica Neue optimizelegibility issue on Chrome and Safari

[danyj]

This is in reference to a closed issue
#3629

it might be worth reopeing and correcting
#3629 (comment)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/joomlabugsquad/Ja2BvatSaNk/2iY6yuRelC8J

please advise

[mdo]

This issue isn't limited to Bootstrap—anyone that uses Helvetica Neue, and there are plenty of sites out there—will have this problem potentially. I don't think we'll be changing anything on our end about it though.

[mastef]

@mdo this is really bad, as Twitter Bootstrap is so prevalent on the web. It makes the web really not enjoyable for Windows + Chrome users, especially since TB set a 'standard' with a lot of sites mindlessly taking those font specifications over.

I had to educate a few bigger startups already that their websites look like hell for selected Windows users, as they were not aware of it; since this is not an issue on their Macs. Also in our Meetup groups here developers and designers regularly ask what's wrong with several websites, or their systems; since popular websites simply display horribly.

But the worst part in this is that there is no easy remedy. You cannot uninstall this font on the latest Windows based systems, and the auto-installed font looks really bad.

Using a non-web font as the default font for a front-end framework that is supposed to look great from the get-go is not a wise choice. It would be great if Bootstrap could address this issue in future releases, as this is simply hell.

[cvrebert]

Locking due to age and in favor of #13823.