Strange Issue while Google Font Rendering

Question

So I am using the fonts this way

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Fira+Sans:700|Open+Sans&text=1234567890ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz%20' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />
<style>h1, h2, h3 {font-family: 'Fira Sans', sans-serif; line-height:1.125em} </style>

This is the result... enter image description here

I am completely confused as how this can even happen? What am I doing wrong. The issue seems only on the home computer. Rest everywhere I checked its fine.

Home PC: Firefox, Windows 7 (In chrome the fonts are not displaying at all, its blank)

have you tried highlighting/copying the "bad" text on the home computer and copy/pasting it elsewhere? If the missing chars show up in the copy/pasted text, then it's a display issue. — Marc B, Dec 19 '14 at 15:03
What is with the `text=1234...` querystring in that CSS link? Why not just pull back the whole font library? Try removing everything from the `&` to the end of the link to see if that helps. — Josh Burgess, Dec 19 '14 at 15:06
@JoshBurgess but if its that issue then it will be in all places not in one scenario.... — Debajyoti Das, Dec 19 '14 at 15:07
@BramVanroy Same for me... I am baffled... How can only my home PC cause this issue ? — Debajyoti Das, Dec 19 '14 at 17:02
Post *sufficient* code (HTML and CSS) that actually reproduces the issue. — Jukka K. Korpela, Dec 19 '14 at 17:41
@DebajyotiDas can you post the specs of your home PC, e.g. CPU, GPU, etc.? — Joshua, Dec 19 '14 at 19:09
See also on Google’s GitHub: [FiraSans and FiraMono appear blank](https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/10) — unor, Nov 08 '16 at 22:04

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 12 '15 at 13:20

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Try using Mozilla's CDN instead of Google's; the latter seems to be buggy with regards to the Fira Sans font.

Replace your googleapis.com link with this one and it should work:

<link href='https://code.cdn.mozilla.net/fonts/fira.css' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' />

You might have to still use Google's CDN for Open Sans, in addition to Mozilla's for Fira Sans, but Open Sans doesn't seem to have this issue as far as I am aware of.

answered Feb 12 '15 at 13:20

bobsoap

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Works fine when rendered from Moz – Debajyoti Das Feb 12 '15 at 15:46
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Is there a way of limiting which weights you bring in? – sjbx Mar 14 '16 at 11:45
I have been using Fira sans for months and I just recently found out that 1 person fails to see the text. I wonder how many visitors in the meantime I have lost because of this... Anyway, how do I test it if it works now? – Marko Apr 12 '16 at 16:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 19 '14 at 15:13

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Do you have any custom settings in your GRAPHICS driver config? E.g. is Anisotropic Filtering, Antialiasing / etc. turned on? Firefox tends to pass some of those optimizations through, with bad results :-/

Try turning all of those settings to "Application-controlled" / auto / default whatever and see if that makes a difference.

answered Dec 19 '14 at 15:13

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Not an answer. Should have been posted as a comment. – Jukka K. Korpela Dec 19 '14 at 17:41
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The sentence "Try turning all of those settings..." is an answer. It may not be THE answer, but it is an answer. – Joshua Dec 19 '14 at 19:06

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Oct 18 '18 at 10:24

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I was having this issue. The cause was a misconfiguration of the time and date information in my computer. Once I adjusted that, google fonts started to work fine.

edited Oct 18 '18 at 10:24

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answered Oct 18 '18 at 10:22

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Strange Issue while Google Font Rendering

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