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Merriweather Normal 400 renders italicized in Chrome only #240

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open Chrome
2. View Merriweather Normal 400
3. ...

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Normal 400 looks fine in FF, Safari and IE. In Chrome I would expect it to be 
normal instead of italic.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I've checked iOS Safari and the following on Win8: FF, IE, Chrome

Please provide any additional information below.
Please view screenshot from Chrome. I've experienced this issue both when 
viewing the font on Google Web Fonts, and on my personal website(j.eremy.net).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jeremybc...@gmail.com on 2 Jul 2013 at 5:13

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Do you have the fonts installed? if so please uninstall them; this is a known 
Chrome bug.

Original comment by dcrossland@google.com on 2 Jul 2013 at 5:14

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Yep, that was it. Thanks for the quick response.

Original comment by jeremybc...@gmail.com on 2 Jul 2013 at 5:37

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by dcrossland@google.com on 2 Jul 2013 at 5:42

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Chrome still shows italic on "normal 400". The other variants are correct.
Safari for PC shows italic in every font variant: Light 300, Normal 400, Bold 
700 and Ultra-Bold 900.

Original comment by m...@florianschuette.de on 1 Mar 2014 at 2:45

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
This is still not fixed. If the font is installed on computer, the Google Font 
is shown Italic-style.

Original comment by tempos...@gmail.com on 13 Jun 2014 at 11:50

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I thought this was fixed a few days ago - but maybe I was looking at a PC 
without Merriweather installed locally, or in Internet Explorer. For me (Win 
8.1), I currently still see Merriweather normal as if it were italic - but not 
in IE. I also attached a screenshot from FF.

Original comment by gjaltj...@gmail.com on 18 Jun 2014 at 10:55

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Same problem here.
Not fixed yet!

Original comment by rdnobref...@gmail.com on 2 Jul 2014 at 10:47

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Some of my team members have been experiencing this issue as well. We have many 
client sites that use this font at normal weight. What are any solutions?

Original comment by lstu...@dexmediateam.com on 11 Jul 2014 at 4:43

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
Maybe I can shed some light on this ... though I don't have any fix, sorry.

After submitting this I dug in a bit more and realized that the provided fonts 
were named improperly. That is, the info in the font file that tells the system 
it's an italic was embedded in the non-italic version (or something like that, 
it's been a while so I can't recall exactly).

Anyways. I contacted the creator of the typeface directly and he was aware and 
provided me with the updated files. He said these had also been sent to Google 
Fonts / etc, but it's hard to say if they were "updated" and I haven't taken 
the time to look. But, that's not the issue for most of us, once you've 
installed that font, your system is going to pull the local version and use the 
file with the wrong info. Open Photoshop, and you can test this by cycling 
through the styles for that font.

To make matters worse, at least for Windows users (I use Win 8), it's really 
hard to uninstall or replace a font. So, you may want to do some Googling on 
the topic before you just copy/paste those files (assuming they are updated on 
Google Fonts and Font Squirrel).

Original comment by jeremybc...@gmail.com on 11 Jul 2014 at 5:21

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I can verify this bug still exists in Chrome. Deleting the font files will 
cause them to display properly in Chrome. Very annoying bug!

Original comment by farris...@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2015 at 5:35

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago 
I can now confirm that this has been solved! At least, at this moment, the 24th 
of July 2015 at 6:04 CEST, I have Merriweather installed on a Windows 8.1 PC, 
and in both Firefox (first screenshot) and Chrome (second screenshot) 
Merriweather normal is displayed normally. I also attached a screenshot from 
Word to 'prove' I have Merriweather installed. Note that I also posted about 
this on the 18th of June, 2014, and then apparently it also seemed to have been 
'resolved' temporarily, so let's see whether it sticks around this time :-)

Original comment by gjaltj...@gmail.com on 24 Jul 2015 at 4:06

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