1038231 - Helvetica Font Looks Weird

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Graphics: Text, defect)

Description

[inandoutland]

Attachment: Website in Firefox

What To Do:
1. Go to http://imulus.github.io/retinajs/
2. Stare at the site for a few seconds.

What Happened:
The Helvetica font was bold and in italics

What Should Have Happened:
The Helvetica font on the site should have been in the regular variant.

Comment 1

[inandoutland]

Attachment: Website in Chrome

Comment 2

[inandoutland]

Attachment: Website in IE

Comment 3

[inandoutland]

Attachment: Website in Midori

Comment 4

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

(In reply to inandoutland from comment #0)

> What Should Have Happened:
> The Helvetica font on the site should have been in the regular variant.

Should it? The "Retina Graphics" text calls for font-weight:bold, according to the element inspector. What exact collection of Helvetica (and/or Helvetica Neue) font faces do you actually have installed?

Comment 5

[inandoutland]

The bottom part of the site does not call for font-weight:bold or font-weight:italics, but Firefox displays them like that.

I pretty much have every single Helvetica variant out there installed on my PC.

This shouldn't be a problem since other browsers handle it just fine(look at the screenshots).

I'll upload some more screenshots to show this.

Comment 6

[inandoutland]

Attachment: Info Part of Webiste in Firefox

Comment 7

[inandoutland]

Attachment: Info Part of Webiste in Midori

Comment 8

[inandoutland]

Attachment: Info Part of Webiste in Chrome

Comment 9

[inandoutland]

Attachment: Info Part of Webiste in IE

Comment 10

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

(In reply to inandoutland from comment #5)
> The bottom part of the site does not call for font-weight:bold or
> font-weight:italics, but Firefox displays them like that.
> 
> I pretty much have every single Helvetica variant out there installed on my
> PC.
> 
> This shouldn't be a problem since other browsers handle it just fine(look at
> the screenshots).

No, they don't - look at your own screenshots! The IE screenshots also show unexpected(?) italics, both for "Retina graphics" and for text like "How it works" and "How to use". And the Midori screenshots show some entirely different font; that's not Helvetica at all. (It looks more like Verdana, though I'm not sure it's exactly that either.)

Comment 11

[inandoutland]

It's alright; you can close the bug if you want to.

Comment 12

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

That depends whether there really is a Firefox bug here, or (as I currently suspect) it's a result of a confusing mixture of fonts installed on the system. But it's difficult to tell without more details of what's actually present in your Fonts directory.