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On Ubuntu, our native font-stack doesn't output the same font on Firefox and Chrome. This is [a known aliasing issue](http://fontfamily.io/sans-serif) — check at the bottom, Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu 18.04 (my current) doesn't use the same (Firefox uses Liberation Sans, Chrome uses the default system font Ubuntu). I'm inclined to prefer Liberation Sans since it's closer to Arial / Helvetica. This patch already exists in Boosted, didn't notice it was missing in bootstrap until today… BTW, our linked Smashing Magazine's system fonts post mentions this and is even more accurate since it targets the three major Linux distributions. AFAIK this is not needed since [Liberation Sans is available everywhere](http://fontfamily.io/Liberation_Sans) — but we might go back to `Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell`if we want to stick to system fonts.
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As suggested by @XhmikosR I made a reduced test case for emoji fonts. Both of Chrome and Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04 get the Noto Color Emoji font, so I guess we're covered here. I also found that Liberation has a monospace font that we might use, however Firefox and Chrome are aliased on this one by using |
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On Ubuntu, our native font-stack doesn't output the same font on Firefox and Chrome. This is [a known aliasing issue](http://fontfamily.io/sans-serif) — check at the bottom, Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu 18.04 (my current) doesn't use the same (Firefox uses Liberation Sans, Chrome uses the default system font Ubuntu). I'm inclined to prefer Liberation Sans since it's closer to Arial / Helvetica. This patch already exists in Boosted, didn't notice it was missing in bootstrap until today… BTW, our linked Smashing Magazine's system fonts post mentions this and is even more accurate since it targets the three major Linux distributions. AFAIK this is not needed since [Liberation Sans is available everywhere](http://fontfamily.io/Liberation_Sans) — but we might go back to `Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell`if we want to stick to system fonts. Co-authored-by: XhmikosR <xhmikosr@gmail.com>
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On Ubuntu, our native font-stack doesn't output the same font on Firefox and Chrome. This is [a known aliasing issue](http://fontfamily.io/sans-serif) — check at the bottom, Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu 18.04 (my current) doesn't use the same (Firefox uses Liberation Sans, Chrome uses the default system font Ubuntu). I'm inclined to prefer Liberation Sans since it's closer to Arial / Helvetica. This patch already exists in Boosted, didn't notice it was missing in bootstrap until today… BTW, our linked Smashing Magazine's system fonts post mentions this and is even more accurate since it targets the three major Linux distributions. AFAIK this is not needed since [Liberation Sans is available everywhere](http://fontfamily.io/Liberation_Sans) — but we might go back to `Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell`if we want to stick to system fonts. Co-authored-by: XhmikosR <xhmikosr@gmail.com>
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On Ubuntu, our native font-stack doesn't output the same font on Firefox and Chrome. This is [a known aliasing issue](http://fontfamily.io/sans-serif) — check at the bottom, Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu 18.04 (my current) doesn't use the same (Firefox uses Liberation Sans, Chrome uses the default system font Ubuntu). I'm inclined to prefer Liberation Sans since it's closer to Arial / Helvetica. This patch already exists in Boosted, didn't notice it was missing in bootstrap until today… BTW, our linked Smashing Magazine's system fonts post mentions this and is even more accurate since it targets the three major Linux distributions. AFAIK this is not needed since [Liberation Sans is available everywhere](http://fontfamily.io/Liberation_Sans) — but we might go back to `Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell`if we want to stick to system fonts. Co-authored-by: XhmikosR <xhmikosr@gmail.com>
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(Deleted previous question to answer it myself), for those looking for it, "our linked Smashing Magazine's system fonts post" may be https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2015/11/using-system-ui-fonts-practical-guide/ linked at eg https://getbootstrap.com/docs/5.3/content/reboot/ ? Although it's pretty short and doesn't seem to mention aliasing, not sure. |
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On Ubuntu, our native font-stack doesn't output the same font on Firefox and Chrome. This is a known aliasing issue — check at the bottom, Ubuntu 14.04. Ubuntu 18.04 (my current) doesn't use the same (Firefox uses Liberation Sans, Chrome uses the default system font Ubuntu).
I'm inclined to prefer Liberation Sans since it's closer to Arial / Helvetica. This patch already exists in Boosted, didn't notice it was missing in bootstrap until today…
BTW, our linked Smashing Magazine's system fonts post mentions this and is even more accurate since it targets the three major Linux distributions. AFAIK this is not needed since Liberation Sans is available everywhere — but we might go back to
Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarellif we want to stick to system fonts.