new text font literally unreadable

[All talk and no fight]

Thanks for falling for my clickbait, but uh is there a way to go back to the old font? is that in steam setting somewhere someone might know?
Thanks

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

No.

The change was made a while ago though.

[PlatinumBass™]

Y'know, it's weird. Some Discussions seems to have it going on my phone but not really in some others, like this one.

[Zekiran]

The preview text is ridiculously poor. what font are they even attempting to use for it? the kerning is ... super bad.

[PlatinumBass™]

Publicado originalmente por Zekiran:

The preview text is ridiculously poor. what font are they even attempting to use for it? the kerning is ... super bad.

Oh, not to mention, the newly formated discussions all have condensed first message boxes for the page they're on.

[ReBoot]

You can disable ClearType, that will disable subpixel rendering. While that makes text generally more messy, there's less potential for even more messyness then.

[Zekiran]

I.... think i'd rather just have them not use whatever horribly bad font system they're putting in place :D

[tiger305]

noticed change a few days ago, different font than what I've been used to..
Don't like it ... tried changing while using the browser to view steam..
but change doesn't stick....

please let those of us who don't like the new font go back ... how hard could
it be ??

[max]

The new font sucks. i say it.

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Are you talking about the font in the UI or the client?

Well, either way, they should pick a font that has serifs on the capital I.

I mean, ideally, they'd pick a fixed-width font with serifs on the capital I, but let's not ask for too much I guess.

...well, actually, ideally, they'd just let us pick the font.

[PlatinumBass™]

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Are you talking about the font in the UI or the client?

Well, either way, they should pick a font that has serifs on the capital I.

I mean, ideally, they'd pick a fixed-width font with serifs on the capital I, but let's not ask for too much I guess.

...well, actually, ideally, they'd just let us pick the font.

Could that maybe be done in a Steam skin?

[Quint the Alligator Snapper]

Publicado originalmente por PlatinumBass™:

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Are you talking about the font in the UI or the client?

Well, either way, they should pick a font that has serifs on the capital I.

I mean, ideally, they'd pick a fixed-width font with serifs on the capital I, but let's not ask for too much I guess.

...well, actually, ideally, they'd just let us pick the font.

Could that maybe be done in a Steam skin?

Potentially. It's not yet clear what skinning can do with the recent new UI format.

As for the font on Steam webpages, though, there's not much you can do about that. Well, technically you could use a script on your regular browser to change the font to something else, but that's not possible in the Steam client's browser anyway.

[PlatinumBass™]

Publicado originalmente por Quint the Alligator Snapper:

Publicado originalmente por PlatinumBass™:

Could that maybe be done in a Steam skin?

Potentially. It's not yet clear what skinning can do with the recent new UI format.

As for the font on Steam webpages, though, there's not much you can do about that. Well, technically you could use a script on your regular browser to change the font to something else, but that's not possible in the Steam client's browser anyway.

I dunno the technical mumbo-jumbo exactly but that sounds about right.

[Tharon]

In a browser you can use the following tampermonkey script to restore the old, more readable font

// ==UserScript==
// @name       Change Steam discussions font
// @version    0.1
// @description  Change the new font in the discussion forums
// @match      *steamcommunity.com/*
// @copyright  2020+, Tharon
// ==/UserScript==

var NFont = document.createElement("style");
NFont.type = "text/css";
NFont.textContent = "* { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif!important; }";

document.head.appendChild(NFont);