[snap] New Ubuntu font with normal weight displayed as bold in Google Docs in Chromium after upgrading to Lunar
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| chromium-browser (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
| fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I am experiencing a rendering regression after upgrading from Kinetic to Lunar.
Google Docs using the Ubuntu font family are displayed incorrectly in Chromium: the normal weight font is rendered identically to the bold weight one, instead of being thicker than light and thinner than medium.
Printing is also affected, unless I use Google Docs' download to PDF function, although that probably triggers a server-side rendering.
This issue does not occur in Firefox or Google Chrome.
One thing that may be relevant: if I force-refresh my test Google Doc I see all four Ubuntu font lines initially being rendered as bold. The light and medium lines are then re-rendered with the correct weight. It's as if bold was the default weight and the normal variant disappeared.
As far as I can tell I was already running Chromium 112.0.5615.49 in Kinetic, and with Chromium being a snap I don't quite understand why the Ubuntu series would matter.
I have also tried version 114.0.5735.16 (in latest/beta at the moment); the symptoms are identical.
The attachments show the rendering error.
| Andrea Ieri (aieri) wrote | #1 |
| Andrea Ieri (aieri) wrote | #2 |
| Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in chromium-browser (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| summary: |
- [snap] Ubuntu font with normal weight displayed incorrectly in Google - Docs after upgrading to Lunar + [snap] New Ubuntu font with normal weight displayed as bold in Google + Docs in Chromium after upgrading to Lunar |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio) wrote | #5 |
| description: | updated |
| tags: | added: lunar |
| Nathan Teodosio (nteodosio) wrote | #6 |
I can confirm this with the new font 0.863-0ubuntu3, though not with the 0.83-6ubuntu1.