Bug 465464

Summary: Falkon is using a faux bold for Arial
Product: [Applications] Falkon Reporter: Munzir Taha <munzirtaha>
Component: generalAssignee: David Rosca <nowrep>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: normal CC: jurajoravec
Priority: NOR    
Version: 22.12.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Attachments: Falkon Rendering
Firefox Rendering

Description Munzir Taha 2023-02-08 10:26:58 UTC 
Created attachment 156065 [details]
Falkon Rendering

When I browser a youtube e.g.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZzlSWyc6oQ

The Arabic text is rendered in "Arabic Bold". The Arabic text is fuzzy and it seems like a faux bold. Firefox renders the text properly but Falkon shows this this problem. Attached is a screenshot from Falkon and another from Firefox.
Comment 1 Munzir Taha 2023-02-08 10:27:46 UTC 
Created attachment 156066 [details]
Firefox Rendering
Comment 2 Juraj 2023-03-13 08:47:33 UTC 
Hello,
at least at the moment Youtube sets font like this:
> font-family: "YouTube Sans","Roboto",sans-serif;

Since I have Roboto installed, it uses that for me.
This issue could actually be about how the fonts are configured in settings and what fonts and how they are configured on your operating system.
Comment 3 Munzir Taha 2023-03-13 12:00:09 UTC 
(In reply to Juraj from comment #2)
> Hello,
> Since I have Roboto installed, it uses that for me.

No, it's not. Roboto font doesn't even support Arabic.
Comment 4 Munzir Taha 2023-11-21 11:57:48 UTC 
It seems Google noticed this bug so they fixed their website by adding Arabic glyphs to their "Youtube Sans" ;)

So, here is another example:

https://quran.ksu.edu.sa/tafseer/katheer/sura52-aya35.html

On the above page, the Arabic text, especially, the one on the greenish background looks blurry because it's using a faux bold instead of the available bold of "KFGQPC Uthmanic Script HAFS" font.