1410374 - sone fonts can't be selected

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect, P3)

Description

[lilydjwg]

Attachment: simple demo page

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/58.0
Build ID: 20171019100107

Steps to reproduce:

I set text font to Lucida Handwriting, Lucida Calligraphy or IM FELL English.


Actual results:

The text is rendered in the default font DejaVu Sans Oblique.


Expected results:

The text should be rendered in the specified fonts.

This works with Firefox 52 ESR. The former two work with Google Chrome.

Comment 1

[lilydjwg]

I tried mozregression and it tells me 2015-05-13 is good and 2015-05-14 is bad, with an empty profile.

Comment 2

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

This is a result of bug 1056479, though offhand I'm not sure exactly why it's failing in this way.

If you remove the font-style:italic from your test page, does that make any difference?

Comment 3

[lilydjwg]

Removing font-style:italic doesn't help: it renders in DejaVu Sans. I added them because in the past Firefox wouldn't render in Lucida Handwriting and Lucida Calligraphy without that.

BTW, you can find the IM FELL English font in Google Fonts. And Firefox renders correctly with web fonts. (The local file was downloaded from there too. I tried to remove the old woff font file and place a new ttf one downloaded just now and it doesn't make a difference.)

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Move_fix-optionals

Comment 5

[lilydjwg]

Attachment: font test screenshot in Firefox nightly

Comment 6

[lilydjwg]

Attachment: font test screenshot in Google Chrome

I'm uploading screenshots for http://zipcon.net/~swhite/docs/computers/browsers/fonttest.html, a great page for testing fonts.

You can see that Firefox (today's nightly) nearly renders all text in DejaVu Serif while Google Chrome is doing as expected.

Comment 7

[zl29ah]

firefox-52 went EOL, so there are no current firefox versions that doesn't trigger that bug it seems :(