Bug 82218

Summary:

Helvetica Neue with font-weight bold renders at a 1px lower baseline

Product:

WebKit

Reporter:

Maximilian Schoening <mschoening>

Component:

CSS

Assignee:

Nobody <webkit-unassigned>

Status:

RESOLVED WONTFIX

Severity:

Normal

CC:

davidbarr, mitz

Priority:

Version:

528+ (Nightly build)

Hardware:

Mac (Intel)

OS:

OS X 10.7

URL:

http://cl.ly/0e0g1H330Z1M0X1x2c0K/content

Attachments:

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Maximilian Schoening

Reported 2012-03-26 09:26:12 PDT

Created attachment 133828 [details] Test case Helvetica Neue with font-weight set to bold renders at a baseline 1px lower than with font-weight set to normal. http://cl.ly/0e0g1H330Z1M0X1x2c0K/content

Attachments
Test case (1.18 KB, text/html) 2012-03-26 09:26 PDT, Maximilian Schoening	no flags	Details
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mitz

Comment 1 2012-03-26 13:18:47 PDT

The two fonts have slightly different vertical metrics (ascender, descender and line gap values). As far as I can tell, WebKit is behaving correctly given the font data.

David Barr

Comment 2 2012-03-28 21:03:06 PDT

I checked mitz's asserting that the metrics differ. Since they differ, I also think WebKit is behaving as intended.

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