Forum ugly under OpenBSD, which fonts used?

[Anima123]

Recently I kinda begin switching to OpenBSD. The doom9 forum quite ugly with Firefox, perhaps I need to add some fonts.

Anyone know which fonts are used to present this forum? So I can manage to add corresponding fonts.

[videoh]

Or maybe you need to ditch Firefox. Doom9 looks perfectly fine to me.

[york]

Or maybe you need to ditch Firefox. Doom9 looks perfectly fine to me.

yeah i think so

[wonkey_monkey]

Or maybe you need to ditch Firefox. Doom9 looks perfectly fine to me.

It's nothing to do with Firefox. It displays the first available font among the fonts specified in the CSS file:

verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;

If the font it ends up using looks "ugly" (though I suspect it's probably more a case of "different") then it's not Firefox's fault.

[Nematocyst]

Several reasons fonts might look ugly. A screenshot might help determine the issue, or clarify if it's just your idea of aesthetics.

In my experience, ugly fonts outside windows are not usually user taste, but real issues easily corrected.

[qyot27]

It's nothing to do with Firefox. It displays the first available font among the fonts specified in the CSS file:

verdana, geneva, lucida, 'lucida grande', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;

If the font it ends up using looks "ugly" (though I suspect it's probably more a case of "different") then it's not Firefox's fault.
Considering all of those fonts are Windows- or macOS-specific until you get to sans-serif, this is exactly it.

http://ports.su/fonts/msttcorefonts

Granted, there's also the fact that the common DEs for *nixen do things like font hinting differently than Windows does, so even installing said fonts won't look exactly as they do on Windows either. But it'll be closer, at any rate.

[Nematocyst]

Considering all of those fonts are Windows- or macOS-specific until you get to sans-serif, this is exactly it.

http://ports.su/fonts/msttcorefonts

Granted, there's also the fact that the common DEs for *nixen do things like font hinting differently than Windows does, so even installing said fonts won't look exactly as they do on Windows either. But it'll be closer, at any rate.

Getting the windows core fonts isn't a bad idea. But often the problem is supporting cleartype, patented by Microsoft. You just have to enable it if that's the issue. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration#Subpixel_rendering

I'm just assuming BSD works similarly.

Having re-read that page, I want to clarify that you probably don't need to compile anything, rather make changes to ~/.fonts.conf (or maybe ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf) and restart your browser.