Remove Broken Ubuntu Fonts

By jcb Last update Apr 26, 2011 — Installed 186 times.


Script Summary: Removes crappy rendered fonts stand-ins used by Ubuntu from all CSS, for smoother fonts. Currently removes "Helvetica" and "Lucida Grande", more to come if and when I find them.

Version: 1.1

Copyright: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike : CC BY-SA

Removes crappy rendered fonts stand-ins used by Ubuntu from all CSS for smoother fonts. Currently "Helvetica" and "Lucida Grande" are removed, more to come if and when I find them.

The method employed changes the style sheets of the website, not the style attributes of the site's tags. This should prevent slowing down on complex sites.

This script _removes_ the offending fonts from the CSS, possibly resulting in empty "font-family" definitions. This shouldn't be a problem though.