fix: self-host Inter font, document unfixed WebKitGTK bold-text bug - #30
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Bundles Inter (300/400/500/600/700) via @fontsource/inter so typography renders as intended on any Linux install instead of silently falling back to whatever generic sans-serif fontconfig resolves (Noto Sans here, which has no Light face and doesn't match the font stack's original intent). Investigated as a fix for track-list/album-grid text rendering bold once a virtualized list actually overflows and scrolls (a WebKitGTK composited-scroll-layer text rendering bug), but font substitution alone doesn't address the underlying compositing behavior. Several other mitigations (will-change layer promotion, transform-vs-top row positioning, compensating font-weight) were tried and ruled out — see the new CLAUDE.md note under Frontend layout for what was tried and why, so this isn't re-investigated from scratch later. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@fontsource/interso typography renders as originally intended on any Linux install, instead of silently falling back to whatever generic sans-serif fontconfig resolves (this machine has neither Inter nor Roboto installed, so it was falling back to Noto Sans).CLAUDE.md: once a virtualized list's scroll container (track list, album grid) actually overflows and becomes scrollable, WebKit promotes it to a GPU-composited layer and text inside renders noticeably bolder than identical non-composited text. Several mitigations were investigated and ruled out (will-changelayer promotion,transform-vs-toprow positioning, compensating font-weight, full compositing disable) — written up so this isn't re-investigated from scratch later.Test plan
npm run checkpasses🤖 Generated with Claude Code