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#19145 closed defect (bug) (fixed)
Helvetica Neue broken in Firefox on Windows 7
| Reported by: | toscho | Owned by: | koopersmith |
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| Priority: | high | Milestone: | 3.3 |
| Component: | UI | Version: | 3.3 |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | has-patch |
| Cc: | Focuses: |
Description
Helvetica Neue is used now for the admin bar and the headings. It doesn’t look clean in Firefox, see screenshot. Since there is no font with the exact name »Helvetica Neue« on my system, Firefox seems to use a font with a similar name like »Helvetica 65 Medium«. Other browsers use just the default sans-serif font, which is fine. I suggest to remove the Helvetica from the font stack and to use just the generic family »sans-serif«.
OS: Windows 7, 64 bit
Installed Fonts: Helvetica Neue from Adobe and Linotype
Attachments (4)
Change History (17)
#1
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15 years ago
Other browsers use just the default sans-serif font, which is fine.
Isn't it then a browser bug? Why Firefox choose another font?
#2
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15 years ago
I’m not sure if Firefox’ behavior really violates the Font matching algorithm. It is a variant of Helvetica Neue, it just doesn’t look good.
#3
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15 years ago
Aurora is an early version of Firefox. Are we sure it will have the same behavior when stable?
Firefox 7.0.1 does not seem to have such problems.
#5
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15 years ago
- Keywords has-patch added
19145.patch would allow those classes to inherit the generic sans-serif family from body.
19145.2.patch just removes Helvetica from the font stack, without removing font-family.
#6
follow-up:
↓ 7
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15 years ago
- Keywords ui-feedback added
SergeyBiryukov, Admin Bar is missing in your patch.
#8
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15 years ago
- Milestone Awaiting Review → 3.3
Background #18020. And with the new welcome screen it comes back. Needs review.
#9
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15 years ago
- Owner set to
- Status new → assigned
Not sure if this was intentional, assigning to @koopersmith for confirmation.
#11
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15 years ago
- Keywords ui-feedback removed
- Resolution → maybelater
- Status assigned → closed
This was intentional — we use Helvetica Neue for accent headings (most noticeably, the h2s) and sans-serif for the rest of the admin. I think that by adding some font-weight declarations, recent versions of FF will fall in line. From that screenshot, it also looks like the admin bar is also affected; if it is, that should be fixed.
After speaking to MT, I'm inclined to think that this is a browser bug in the FF Aurora build, and that we should stay the (neue) course. If it's not, let's reopen the ticket and reëvaluate.
Firefox Aurora 9.0a2 (2011-11-03) vs. Opera 11.52