Closed Bug 1019234 Opened 8 years ago Closed 7 years ago

font / font-family (and maybe font-weight and font-stretch): font faces like Arial Black when using DirectWrite

Categories

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: CSS, defect)

Product:
Developer Documentation Graveyard
Component:
CSS
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: gingerbread_man, Assigned: teoli)

Details

• Bug 584769.
• Bug 644385.
• Bug 835204.

https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/CSS/font

By default, Firefox uses hardware acceleration under Windows 7 and later. With DirectWrite, font faces like Arial Black are just a subset of the Arial family. The implication is that Firefox doesn't recognize Arial Black, Arial Narrow, Calibri Light, etc. when specified with font: or font-family:. Articles like the above need to clearly state the proper way to do things and provide examples.

BAD: <p style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Arial Black</p>
GOOD: <p style="font-family: 'Arial Black', Arial; font-weight: 900">Arial Black</p>

More examples in the testcase of bug 1019232.
The examples have been rewritten in a completely different way since this bug has been filed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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