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The webpage doesn't render at all on both Chrome and Firefox: https://i.imgur.com/iclK6Dl.png

Given that you're claiming that it doesn't render on two popular browsers, one of which I believe has the most market share of any browser, maybe your first thought should be that there's something wrong with your setup?

It doesn't render on Chrome mobile.

> maybe your first thought should be that there's something wrong with your setup

It is, but I tested in new, clean profile and it's the same. No error in Network or Console either.

It looks like to me the font this page uses ("rubik") are just showing as blank despite being a network resource.

I'm no webdev so this is the best I can do.

Edit: I think this font is just broken on Win 7: https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1137, at least the version hosted on Adobe Fonts which this webpage is using.

thanks for pointing this out... I'll have the devs/design team take a look. Ironically, we just switched from an expensive licensed font to the free Rubik, so I guess we get what we pay for

I agree, Chrome on Windows 7, I cannot see a single word in that article or that website. May they should have done some basic testing before using that nice font.

What exactly does this mean? Is it typical to assume that "a nice font" is going to break on Windows 7?

Don't mind, I think he's just being snarky :p

I do have encountered issues multiple times with these new web fonts on Win 7 before, though; it looks like Microsoft changed their rendering engine quite a lot in Win 10.

Again, I think this is a fail of the font providers (they should test), not the users.

thanks fireattack :D

Well, learned some new things today and now I'm better for it

Have a great weekend

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