>Gecko 1.9.2 and Safari 5.1/ Chrome dev channel all render the same. >A nightly Firefox build and Opera render the 'Little Days' font differently >(and differently from each other). > >The issue is that your 'Little Days' font is a 'normal weight' face, but your >stylesheet specifies that it should be bold. As you don't provide a 'bold >weight' face, browsers simulate the bolding artificially (and do a poop job in >some cases). > >here is a test case: >http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/ev-20111223.html >and a screen shot - from left: Safari, Opera, Firefox 9: >http://dev.l-c-n.com/_temp/ev-20111223.png
Yes the Little Day font is of normal-weight, it's a free commercial font that came with only that weight family. I think this is a case of the Mac OS engine rendering fonts differently, period as it always seems to be the case w Mac versus Windows OS. The font smoothing or anti alias that it adds to the font is what causes it to have a heavier appearance even when fonts are specified at normal weight. I took screen shots of your test case on my Windows 7 machine, on four different browsers: FF, Opera, Google & Safari for Windows. All fonts got rendered the identically except for the Little Day font w bold in Safari. If you compare my screenshots side by side with the ones you took off your Mac you'll see that even at a normal weight the font smoothing/anti aliasing of Mac causes what is already a very light weigh font to look slightly bold. Even the Candara font at normal weight in Mac are heavier than they are on my machine. Obviously this is beyond a pure CSS fix. I will have to resort to programming for this. http://www.e7flux.com/clients/sof/ff-opera-google-safari.jpg >btw, I also would suggest to split up your @font-face block, as I did in the >test case. Your way of doing it is strange, although the validator doesn't >puke on it. > >Philippe Please explain why you're surprised the validator didn't puke on it? Was the way I wrote it incorrect? And what makes your way the better way? Elli Vizcaino Helping artists, entrepreneurs and small businesses knock the socks off the competition! http://www.e7flux.com ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
