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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Jun 2016
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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font-weight: bold doesn't work on some fonts

Reported by nia...@gmail.com, Jun 24 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 (x86_64)) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2756.0 Safari/537.36

Example URL:
https://jsfiddle.net/97k73wLw/1/

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Open https://jsfiddle.net/97k73wLw/

What is the expected behavior?
Line should be bold

What went wrong?
Line is not bold

(Attached screenshots show what it looks on Chromium 51 vs 53)

Does it occur on multiple sites: Yes

Is it a problem with a plugin? No 

Did this work before? Yes <= 52

Does this work in other browsers? Yes 

Chrome version: 53.0.2756.0  Channel: dev
OS Version: 
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 22.0 r0
 
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Comment 1 by nia...@gmail.com, Jun 24 2016

And this one is correctly bold in 53:

https://jsfiddle.net/97k73wLw/2/

Comment 2 by nia...@gmail.com, Jun 24 2016

I think the problem is probably because I have a "Helvetica Light" font on my system, which provides style=Regular,Light

(Line from fc-list: "helvetica-light.otf: Helvetica Light,Helvetica:style=Regular,Light")

I think Chromium is picking this font by mistake even if it didn't provide a "bold" weight.

Components: -Blink Blink>Fonts

Comment 4 by e...@chromium.org, Jun 27 2016

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
If you have Helvetica light set up to provide a style=Regular weight then that font gets picked and the weight will be synthetically altered to provide a fake bold typeface. However, as it is a light typeface to begin with that'll only make it appear at regular weight.

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