insomnia: [BUG] Font rendering on ubuntu is bad

In general, fonts for Insomnia in Ubuntu 17.10 render really badly - hinting is probably wrong as the smaller the font, the less readable they are.

Insomnia Version:

Version 5.15.0
Shell 1.7.13
Node 7.9.0
V8 5.8.283.38
Architecture x64

Operating System: Ubuntu 17.10 / Unity 7

I’m attaching a number of partial screenshots:

Some of the other electron apps I’m using (eg VSCode) do not show this problem and indeed render fonts just like any other native app.

Seems to be all fonts, not just the interface fonts I’ve highlighted - embiggening the text editor font mitigates the problem in there, but by no means fixes it.

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 6 years ago
Comments: 21 (10 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Change fonts to use what VSCode does (Closes #843) — committed to luizmariz/insomnia by gschier 6 years ago

Most upvoted comments

I’m having similar problem on Ubuntu 18.04 with Insomnia version 5.16.1. I’ve checked the font family in dev tools and it is using: Courier New. Is there any way I can change the font myself?

jdorleans on Apr 27, 2018

@luispabon Can you do me a favor and check which font-family is actually showing for you? In Ubuntu 18.04 it’s Liberation Mono but I don’t have a 17.10 to test with.

Note: the following screen recording was done on Mac

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gschier on Apr 27, 2018