I'm doing a site that uses a black background with white text. You can see it here (still under development - so I know things are messed up all over the place! And a warning - it's for a stage musician, so there is audio and video that plays as soon as the page loads up. I'm still trying to convince him *not* to do this - but for now it has to stay - so just warning you!) http://brassblogs.com/testbed
When I do this with black text on a white background, the font looks normal (It's Trebuchet MS). But this - the white-on-black - makes the text look like it's using bold font all the time. In fact, there's a page where I have a couple of words in bold text, and you can't tell the difference between that and the regular text on the page. I can't find any reason for this to be happening - and I assumed it was how my Mac (using Firefox and/or Safari) just renders fonts. But the client is using a PC, ad he says the same thing is happening to him. When I did the comp for this, the text was definitely lighter - but I just cannot get it to render at a lighter weight no matter what I try. (I've used "lighter" and used "100" to no effect). I (and the client) really want this font to show up less bold. Is there something *I'm* doing to cause this, or is it just how browsers render things nowadays? (I do have a PC, and it's showing up how it should in Firefox and IE 6, but IE7 is doing the "bold" thing as well.) If it's a browser setting, I can deal with that - but if this the way things will be heading by default, I think I need to find another, lighter, font that won't display like this. Anyone have any suggestions? Even Arial/Helvetica is rendering bold. Thanks! ~Shelly ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
