Failed to decode downloaded font

[brynne8]

I'm using webfont in woff and ttf formats, with supermium 119 on Windows 7. But the fonts are failed to decode:

Failed to decode downloaded font <URL>
OTS parsing error: Unable to instiante font face from font data

[win32ss]

Are you using GDI? Otherwise, do you have Platform Update?

It seems there are problems with remote fonts with early DirectWrite and GDI.

[brynne8]

I just ran the installer from the releases. The font (just some iconfont like font awesome) works well on Chrome as well as Chromium. I didn't enforce the GDI flag.

[win32ss]

Have you installed the Windows 7 Platform Update (KB2670838)?

Anyway, I will attempt to force the use of remote fonts in DirectWrite v1. I confirmed that the fonts appeared in GDI with everything from XP to Windows 10.

[brynne8]

I didn't install that Windows Update. Maybe it's the cause.

[ghost]

Fonts do look uglier on GDI. 7 without Platform Update is just fine rendering web fonts on older Chromium (109) with DirectWrite.