Hi Tom,
font-weight:500 means semi-bold, default for <strong> is bold, so I gess
you need to add that extra rule
strong {
font-weight: 500;
}
you can take a look at:
http://elliotjaystocks.com/blog/font-weight-in-the-age-of-web-fonts/
and
http://css-tricks.com/watch-your-font-weight/
hope it helps
isabel
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Tom Livingston <tom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was doing this simple test with google fonts (via @import method).
>
> body{
> font-family: $roboto;
> }
>
> .bold{
> font-weight: 500;
> }
>
> <p>Hi there <span class="bold">bolded text</span></p>
> <p><strong>I'm bold</strong></p>
>
> The strong tag above was rendering wrong in FF and Chrome. FF was
> 'double-bolding' the text, and Chrome showed odd char spacing.
>
> Am I implementing something wrong, or do I need to write rules like
> strong{font-weight:500;font-style:normal;} to have this work right?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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