Closed Bug 271763 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

helvetica font displayed as a serif font

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

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Text and Fonts
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

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()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: oskar, Unassigned)

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Details 
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041120 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-3)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041120 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0-3)

Browse the HTML below. The text will be displayed with a Serif font. I.e. it
will look more like Times[New Roman] rather than Bitstream Vera Sans or Arial.
Helvetica is aliased as a Sans Serif in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf (default
configuration, no changes).


Helvetica looks normal in other applications like Gnumeric and other GTK 2 apps.
That is, it is substituted with Bitstream Vera Sans from ttf-bitstream-vera
which I also have installed. I don't have msttcorefonts installed. My
mozilla/firefox font settings are the default:

  Proportional: Serif
  Serif: serif
  Sans-serif: sans-serif
  Monospace: monospace
  (Always use my Fonts is not checked)

I have GTK2 2.4.13, fontconfig 2.2.3, libxft2 2.1.2, freetype 2.1.7.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Font test</title>
</head>
<body>
<div style="font-family: helvetica">This is some text.</div>
</body>

Actual Results:  
Text is rendered with serif font.

Expected Results:  
Text should be rendered with sans serif font.
Reporter, if you suggest someone browse to some content, you should provide a
URL, or create an attachment containing the content you suggest, not paste the
content into your comments.
Here's the sample HTML. The text of the page displays in a sans serif font for
me, though I couldn't swear it's helvetica rather than my usual sans-serif
font. I'm using a current trunk build of firefox built with gtk2.
> That is, it is substituted with Bitstream Vera Sans from ttf-bitstream-vera

In this case, you want "font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif" if you want that
behavior.  Otherwise, if Helvetica is not found, the CSS specification says that
the fallback font is the user's default font. In your case, that's "serif" per
your prefs.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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