Bug 12395 - Remapping of Arial
Summary: Remapping of Arial
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Text (show other bugs)
Version: 420+
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.4
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Reported: 2007-01-24 12:17 PST by Nicholas Shanks
Modified: 2024-02-13 02:19 PST (History)
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Description Nicholas Shanks 2007-01-24 12:17:39 PST 
The font Arial is mapped to Helvetica, but Helvetica on Mac OS X only ships with a single weight. However Helvetica Neue does ship with several weights. I therefore suggest remapping Arial to Helvetica Neue (regular/bold/italic/bold italic)

In case my Helvetica Neue fonts aren't quite what come shipped with OS X, I have:

UltraLight (+italic)
Light (+italic)
Regular (+italic)
Bold (+italic, +condensed)
Black (condensed only)
Comment 1 Ahmad Saleem 2023-12-14 11:38:51 PST 
@Vitor - is this applicable anymore?

I think macOS have new 'San Francisco' font these days? https://developer.apple.com/fonts/
Comment 2 Ahmad Saleem 2024-02-13 02:19:42 PST 
We have currently here mapped `Arial` to `Helvetica`:

https://searchfox.org/wubkat/rev/18019ceed4fbceaa9fcc23b2f36758831b23a155/Source/WebCore/platform/graphics/FontCache.cpp#156