ALL text in my site is bold

  • Resolved brenlifeucsb

    (@brenlifeucsb)


    10 years, 6 months ago

    My site’s (www.brenlife.org) text is all in bold (and when I say “all” the text, I mean all of it, even on my twitter widget). This only happens when viewed on Internet Explorer and when using a Mac. I use Firefox on my PC and it does not turn out bold on there, and it looks like it’s supposed to.

    I bought the Storm theme, and asked the developer why it would do that, and his answer was a measly “i don’t know, i’ve never seen that happen before.” Yeah, ok, thanks…

    Can anyone help me out please?

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  • It doesn’t appear to be bolded, ie,

    font-weight: bold;
    or
    font-weight: 700;
    for example.

    But it’s just your font selection:
    font-family: "Arial Black"

    Thread Starter brenlifeucsb

    (@brenlifeucsb)

    Sorry, I didn’t understand your response. I’m a newbie to WordPress.

    Did you view it in internet explorer? I know that IE is one particular web browser that puts it all in bold (as seen on my PC), and my colleagues said that it also happened when they were viewing the site on their Mac, most likely using Safari.

    When viewed on Firefox on my PC it is normal.

    Different browsers employ different approaches to rendering (displaying) fonts. For example (although I appreciate this may be more technical than you need right now).

    Moreover, some fonts only come in certain weights, and different rendering engines will apply different rules to pick a weight if one isn’t specified accurately.

    For example, Arial, Helvetica, Georgia, etc. do not have weights other than 400 / “normal” and 700 / “bold”.

    I do know that Firefox has had trouble rendering Arial Black. So rather than, as you suspect, IE “bolding” the font, IE may be displaying it correctly and rather Firefox is rendering it in a lighter form.

    Try changing from ‘Arial Black’ to Arial 400 for normal paragraph styling and see if there’s consistency across browsers then.

    Thread Starter brenlifeucsb

    (@brenlifeucsb)

    Ah, okay I understand now. That was very helpful to know!

    It fixed the problem. Thank you very much!

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