Significant degradation of font rendering on Linux

[kr41]

Description of the issue:

There is a significant degradation of font rendering in the most recent release of Brave 1.82.166 on Linux.

The fragment below is rendered by Brave (here is the page address):

The same fragment rendered by Firefox looks like this:

Brave Version:

Brave 1.82.166 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Chromium: 140.0.7339.133

Additional Information:

$ uname -srvm
Linux 5.15.0-76-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 15 19:16:32 UTC 2023 x86_64

$ snap list brave
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
brave 1.82.166 543 latest/stable brave✓ -

$ snap list firefox
Name Version Rev Tracking Publisher Notes
firefox 142.0.1-1 6738 latest/stable/… mozilla✓ -

[daireb]

This is happening for me as well and it’s very annoying

[Remco]

I can confirm as well that it affects the latest versions of Brave on Linux.

In my case it is Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS with all the recent updates. Brave is version: Brave 1.82.170 (Official Build) (64-bit).

The address bar and menu’s all look horrible. On page text seems mostly alright.

[fontisfucked]

same issues here, need a fix before my brain melts from the horrendous rendering

[Remco]

Has anyone seen any response from the dev team on this issue?

[kr41]

Still observable in version 1.82.172

[Saoiray]

@Remco

Has anyone seen any response from the dev team on this issue?

Yes. Unfortunately too many people opened topics rather than searching for existing open topics. Often one of the newer might grab attention first for showing in recent list and replies occur there. Some of the older get lost in the shuffle and/or it just gets annoying to constantly repeat the same answers so there’s a bit of silence.

Some fonts look really **bad** in Brave

This is a known issue that the team is working on addressing presently:

Also should reference a week before this topic was opened:

Restore default system fonts

Hi ! Just discovered this so … If you’re using linux, like I do (PopOS 22.04 LTS) then you need to use the gnome tweaks utility and change the font from Fira Sans to something else then restart browser (the downside is that it changes the font of the whole gnome interface … but at least Brave is readable again ) … It seems that there’s a problem with that font rendering in Brave !

Key thing is, it’s being looked into.

Fonts display wonky for Linux/Pop_OS users on v1.81.166

And from what I can see, it’s upstream and happens on Chrome/Chromium as well.