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    <bug>
          <bug_id>189483</bug_id>
          
          <creation_ts>2018-09-10 14:59:33 -0700</creation_ts>
          <short_desc>Fonts which understand the &apos;ital&apos; axis get synthetic italics</short_desc>
          <delta_ts>2024-07-31 08:17:49 -0700</delta_ts>
          <reporter_accessible>1</reporter_accessible>
          <cclist_accessible>1</cclist_accessible>
          <classification_id>1</classification_id>
          <classification>Unclassified</classification>
          <product>WebKit</product>
          <component>Text</component>
          <version>WebKit Nightly Build</version>
          <rep_platform>Unspecified</rep_platform>
          <op_sys>Unspecified</op_sys>
          <bug_status>NEW</bug_status>
          <resolution></resolution>
          
          <see_also>https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209565</see_also>
          <bug_file_loc></bug_file_loc>
          <status_whiteboard></status_whiteboard>
          <keywords></keywords>
          <priority>P2</priority>
          <bug_severity>Normal</bug_severity>
          <target_milestone>---</target_milestone>
          
          
          <everconfirmed>1</everconfirmed>
          <reporter name="Myles C. Maxfield">mmaxfield</reporter>
          <assigned_to name="Myles C. Maxfield">mmaxfield</assigned_to>
          <cc>benoit.rouleau</cc>
    
    <cc>herr.ernst</cc>
    
    <cc>mmaxfield</cc>
          

      

      

      

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          <long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>1458249</commentid>
    <comment_count>0</comment_count>
    <who name="Myles C. Maxfield">mmaxfield</who>
    <bug_when>2018-09-10 14:59:33 -0700</bug_when>
    <thetext>We don&apos;t recognize the font as italic, but we should. We erroneously apply synthetic bold.

You can see this on the &quot;italic&quot; section of https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Fonts/Variable_Fonts_Guide</thetext>
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    <commentid>1458250</commentid>
    <comment_count>1</comment_count>
    <who name="Myles C. Maxfield">mmaxfield</who>
    <bug_when>2018-09-10 15:01:19 -0700</bug_when>
    <thetext>(In reply to Myles C. Maxfield from comment #0)
&gt; We don&apos;t recognize the font as italic, but we should. We erroneously apply
&gt; synthetic bold.

s/bold/italics/

&gt; 
&gt; You can see this on the &quot;italic&quot; section of
&gt; https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Fonts/
&gt; Variable_Fonts_Guide</thetext>
  </long_desc><long_desc isprivate="0" >
    <commentid>1580310</commentid>
    <comment_count>2</comment_count>
    <who name="Myles C. Maxfield">mmaxfield</who>
    <bug_when>2019-10-15 15:16:49 -0700</bug_when>
    <thetext>That example has &quot;font-style: italic&quot; set on the font from https://mdn.github.io/css-examples/variable-fonts/fonts/jost-VF.woff2</thetext>
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    </bug>

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