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Keith
Keith

Reputation: 4204

Why is "Source Sans Pro" displaying at incorrect font-weight for "font-weight:200" in Chrome?

I'm including Source Sans Pro from Google fonts and I realized that it's not displaying correctly in Google Chrome only, it seems.

I tried running an Incognito window just to make sure it wasn't a plug-in, and sure enough it's still showing at what seems to be font weight 400 instead of 200 for ultra-light, even right on the Google Fonts site (as well as the project I caught the error in).

Is this a Chrome-only thing? It seems strange that Chrome wouldn't support that font at 200 font weight even on the Google Fonts site, hmm.

Heres an image from a screenshot of the google fonts page:

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Any thoughts?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3255

Answers (1)

Abhinav Gauniyal
Abhinav Gauniyal

Reputation: 7574

Status of the issue, June 2014: Fixed with Chrome 37

Well , chrome will use DirectWrite from version 37 and till that , most WD know that it dosen't renders fonts correctly.

Here its discussed : Chromium issue

And another SO question with detailed answers : SO link

Upvotes: 2

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