This (small font families...few included weights) and the fact that the bulk of the Yahoo Fonts are not the highest quality is the reason I moved to Typekit. Personally I'll do anything to avoid a UA's faux bold and italic rendering.
If you need to use Google Fonts there are a couple of good articles that add to the topic" On Smashing <http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/07/11/avoiding-faux-weights-styles-google-web-fonts/> and ALA <http://alistapart.com/article/say-no-to-faux-bold> An interesting article on efficient use of web fonts "Web Fonts and the Critical Path" <http://ianfeather.co.uk/web-fonts-and-the-critical-path/> Hope this helps a git, Eric > On March 27, 2014 at 3:23 PM David Hucklesby <huckle...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 3/27/14, 9:34 AM, Tom Livingston 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. > > > [...] > > Does this address your problem? - > > <http://css-tricks.com/watch-your-font-weight/> > > -- > Cordially, > David > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > 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/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] 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/
