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Sign upFira Code does not download on Chrome 79.x on Windows only #2328
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Thank you for the report. I'm having trouble reproducing. Does this happen reliably for you? |
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Hello @hmemcpy
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Re-typed URL from screenshots (ideally confirm copy-and-paste) whereas:
(edit: lower-case-que, not lower-case-gee), then first URL works. |
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What's interesting, if I request |
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Very odd, on my VM I get different sizes:
If it helps, I used this
Finally, the "broken" font (3dSD) doesn't also render properly in the Preview tab in network. It shows a generic serif font. I'm sorry, not really a web dev, so not sure what else I can provide to be helpful... |
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https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/third_party/+/master/blink/renderer/platform/fonts/web_font_decoder.cc#184. Despite the message this may not be OTS. |
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Appears to be due to a bug in our toolchain that Fira Code triggers, likely only causing an issue on Windows where Chrome tries to use DWrite for variable fonts. |


I noticed that my blog wasn't rendering the monospaced font correctly on Windows, and I noticed that I get a lot of warnings about it failing to download Fira Code:

It works fine in Chrome/Brave on macOS, does not work on Windows. It does, however, work on Edge (Chromium 70) on both Windows and Mac.
I asked on twitter, and many folks confirm they get the same error in Chrome on Windows.
I'm using Brave version 1.2.43 Chromium: 79.0.3945.130 (Official Build) (64-bit) if that helps
I managed to reproduce this on codepen: https://codepen.io/hmemcpy/pen/OJPKxLJ