On Aug 24, 2011, at 7:31 AM, John wrote:
> for this page: http://www.coffeeonmars.com/testing/1_index.html
>
> there's a headline spec'd as:
>
> font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
>
> OK on most browsers, but on my other Mac, Safari 4.1.3 shows it as Helvetical
> Bold *Rounded* despite having Helvetica Bold loaded and available to any
> running application program.
>
> In other words, the Mac has the correct font loaded, yet Safari is choosing
> somehow to display that head in Bold Rounded.
>
> How can I fix this? Isn't my font-family declaration perfectly clear and
> precise?
As I don't have Helvetica Rounded installed, I'll venture a guess.
You stylesheet specifies:
> .textheadbold {
> font-size: 110%;
> font-weight: 800; /* <——————— */
> font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
> /*....*/
> }
There is no Helvetica with 'font-weight:800' installed on OS X – unless you
installed a third party copy of Helvetica. Safari (only on 10.4 ? I don't
remember running in that sort of problem with Safari 4+ on 10.5 / 10.6) then
looks for / falls back to a Helvetica with that weight.
Change that to 'font-weight:700;' and Safari will use Helvetica (not rounded).
(unless there are other issues involved, including missing copy of the default
Helvetica Bold or corrupt font caches)
Philippe
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http://l-c-n.com/
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