Hi Tom, font-weight:500 means semi-bold, default for <strong> is bold, so I gess you need to add that extra rule strong { font-weight: 500; } you can take a look at:
http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/font-weight-in-the-age-of-web-fonts/ and http://css-tricks.com/watch-your-font-weight/ hope it helps isabel On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Tom Livingston <tom...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was doing this simple test with google fonts (via @import method). > > body{ > font-family: $roboto; > } > > .bold{ > font-weight: 500; > } > > <p>Hi there <span class="bold">bolded text</span></p> > <p><strong>I'm bold</strong></p> > > The strong tag above was rendering wrong in FF and Chrome. FF was > 'double-bolding' the text, and Chrome showed odd char spacing. > > Am I implementing something wrong, or do I need to write rules like > strong{font-weight:500;font-style:normal;} to have this work right? > > Thanks in advance. > > > -- > > Tom Livingston | Senior Front-End Developer | Media Logic | > ph: 518.456.3015x231 | fx: 518.456.4279 | mlinc.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/ > ______________________________________________________________________ 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/