Why would html text sometimes appear garbled when viewing on Chrome or Safari on Windows?

Question

Occasionally users report that the text on https://squareup.com looks like gibberish (or garbled) to them… however we’ve been unable to reproduce this.

Users report

Answer 1

I don't have a surefire answer for you, but it looks like you're using the Modernizr class and looking at your html node in Chrome it has the js fontface class applied to it, which suggests custom font-face problems.