Bug 10919 – REGRESSION (r18680): Fonts with 'light' or 'ultra-light' defaulting to those instead of 'regular'

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: DUPLICATE
• Component: CSS

[Mike Filippone (donkeyentertain)]

I'm not sure if this is just my system, since I have about 1000 other fonts installed, but it works fine in regular Safari.  Anyways, fonts with the font-size specified will load the 'ultra light' version of the font, if there is one.  If there is a 'light' version of the font, it seems like you don't even need the font-size and it will load by default.

If you throw in a font-weight in there, either font-weight:normal, or font-weight:400, nothing will happen.  However, if you put font-weight:bold, or 800, it will load the 'bold' version of the font.

Besides Helvetica Neue (which you need the font-weight in there to reproduce), I also tested American Typewriter and Gill Sans, which both had a 'light' version of the font.  The font-size attribute did not need to be set to reproduce the error for those fonts.

[Mike Filippone (donkeyentertain)]

Created attachment 10628 [details]
testcase

I put both ways to reproduce, with the Helvetica Neue (which needs font-size to reproduce), and Gill Sans (which does not).

Rolling out <http://trac.webkit.org/projects/webkit/changeset/18680> fixes it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 11027 ***