719648 - Incorrect default font-weight for web fonts

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Graphics: Text, defect)

Description

[Rob Yedlin]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_8) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.75 Safari/535.7

Steps to reproduce:

Loaded Futura Bold Condensed web font from bitsteam at myfonts.com


Actual results:

The font loaded way too heavy


Expected results:

Every other browser loads the font with default font-weight: normal; Firefox did not.

Comment 1

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Please as a testcase.  This should be webpage source that loads and uses the font as an attachment to this bug.

Comment 2

[Rob Yedlin]

Attachment: Web font to test

Fonts in question

Comment 3

[Rob Yedlin]

Disregard attachment.

Here is the css:

@font-face {font-family: 'FuturaBT-BoldCondensed';src: url('webfonts/futura/eot/style_610.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),url('webfonts/futura/woff/style_610.woff') format('woff'),url('webfonts/futura/ttf/style_610.ttf') format('truetype'),url('webfonts/futura/svg/style_610.svg#FuturaBT-BoldCondensed') format('svg'); }

Comment 4

[Rob Yedlin]

Attachment: Firefox 9 font-weight: normal; not set

Comment 5

[Rob Yedlin]

Attachment: Chrome font-weight: normal; not set

Comment 6

[Rob Yedlin]

Attachment: Firefox 9 font-weight: normal; set

Comment 7

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Are we applying synthetic bolding in this case because the @font-face rule didn't say the font was bold, but the style using the font asked for bold?

Or is this a Mac-specific rendering issue?


In any case, an HTML testcase is needed to tell (not just a tiny piece of the CSS).

Comment 8

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

(In reply to David Baron [:dbaron] (don't cc:, use needinfo? instead) from comment #7)
> Are we applying synthetic bolding in this case because the @font-face rule
> didn't say the font was bold, but the style using the font asked for bold?
> 
> Or is this a Mac-specific rendering issue?
> 
> 
> In any case, an HTML testcase is needed to tell (not just a tiny piece of
> the CSS).

Note that the @font-face rule mentioned in comment 3 does *not* declare the font-weight descriptor, so it will default to normal (400). But the "problem" elements in the screenshot are all headings, so they're almost certainly styled with font-weight:bold.

So I'm virtually certain it's (correct) application of synthetic bold, due to lack of the appropriate font-weight descriptor.

Comment 9

[John Daggett (:jtd)]

This may also be that the author prefers one form of synthetic bolding to another (Chrome vs. Safari vs. Gecko).  The right solution is to use the appropriate bold face.