Helvetica Neue Light has issues on some systems and with some font weights

[tonyjansen_nl]

​http://www.mobypicture.com/user/tonyjansen/view/9468762

Chrome on left, Safari on right. Both latest versions on Win 7 64bit with a helvetica neue light typeface installed on the system.

It's a hard one to pin down, but basically it comes down to light faces having a hard time scaling when you set weight in numerics. From a typography standpoint, you don't set weights on a weight-typed typeface like "Light".

The types aren't designed and hinted for that. If you use those, you treat them like regular. So, if you want to variate with weight here, use the regular Helvetica Neue.

[nacin]

This ticket was created by nacin.

Further reported by dd32 in IRC: 200|300|400 all look the same in the browsers ihe has (opera, chome, and IE), aside from firefox.

[tonyjansen_nl]

Also, FF4 has the most advanced type rendering engine/features in place of all of the modern browsers. It's a good base-line test for checking type in browsers. If it looks "wrong" in FF4, chances are it is "wrong".

[dd32]

Further to this, Here's another screenshot: Opera, firefox 4.0.1, and Chrome on Windows 7:
​http://dd32.id.au/uploads/2011/06/ff401headings.jpg

Upping the font-weight to either 300, 400, or 'normal' looks the same to me, and seems to work in the other browsers.

[azaozz]

In [18230]:

H2 font weight = normal as Helvetica Neue Light doesn't scale well for lighter setting, props dd32, fixes #17743