611877 - "bolder" generates ugly looking fonts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 584769

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

Attachment: testcase

It seems like if we have something like:

<h4><b>Foo</b></h4>

We try to make Foo even bolder than it would be in a <h4>, because it now has 'font-weight: bolder;' as opposed to 'font-weight: bold;'.  This results in ugliness if we apply what I assume is synthetic bold, as in the attached testcase.  I'm seeing this with d2d/dwrite here.

Comment 1

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

Attachment: image of testcase

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

What values of font-family trigger this?  Is it just the "Arial" bit that's relevant there?

Comment 3

[Vladimir Vukicevic [:vlad] [:vladv] (needinfo me, slow to respond)]

Not sure -- I copied what the computed style was for the site where I was seeing this.  I don't think I have helvetica nueue or helvetica installed, so pretty sure we're getting just Arial.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

In that case, you're probably getting the Black face of Arial, not a synthetic bold.