Weird Font Rendering in Chrome on the Swr Site
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The SWR site is experiencing weird font rendering issues in Chrome, prompting discussion about potential causes and fixes.
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I clicked a link to swr.vercel.app on the facebook react documentation and noticed that the subtitle font was different to a duplicate of the page I opened the other day.
OK, weird, I refreshed the old page that was already open and the font remained the same.
OK? I disabled ad-blocking because some of the tracking scripts were off but still the same issue...
I noticed in the DOM panel that some of the scripts down the bottom were in different orders so there's clearly something weird going on.
When I opened it in Incognito, it was showing the latest version.
When I duplicated the old version I had open however, even the duplicate had the same alternate font.
Only when loading the page fresh by typing out the URL did I get the latest version of the page.
I even tried hard-refreshing with dev-tools open.
What's this weirdness?