Roboto font in Chrome is not shown properly

Question

I've been working for a client site and I have problem with rendering of Roboto font.

In Chrome (ver. 43.0.2357.65 m) all the various weights of Roboto looks same. Here is the example: Left is Mozilla Firefox, right is Chrome http://i.stack.imgur.com/dX4Lx.jpg

Do you have any idea what's wrong with it?

thank you

Solution 1

Well, it's such a shame, but I have had old version of Roboto installed on my PC.
Since I deleted, everything works fine again.

I should facepalm myself hard..

Solution 2

I have the same version and it's work.

Try to include font in CSS with this code

@import url(http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,400italic,500,500italic,700,700italic,900,900italic,300italic,300,100italic,100);

body {
   font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
}

And set the font-weight: 300; for exemple and see if that works.

Solution 3

If you are using Adobe's Creative Cloud and you have Roboto set as a font, you may run into issues where all things in Chrome then get Roboto Bold. I disabled the font from Adobe Fonts and it fixed my issue, but in some Google products like GMAIL, Sans Serif is bolded and you can't turn off the bold. I don't know why and I can't find any good information on how to resolve that.

Solution 4

If you use @fontface evert browser use different font format so the complete css is like this:

@font-face {
  font-family: 'MyWebFont';
  src: url('webfont.eot'); /* IE9 Compat Modes */
  src: url('webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), /* IE6-IE8 */
       url('webfont.woff2') format('woff2'), /* Super Modern Browsers */
       url('webfont.woff') format('woff'), /* Pretty Modern Browsers */
       url('webfont.ttf')  format('truetype'), /* Safari, Android, iOS */
       url('webfont.svg#svgFontName') format('svg'); /* Legacy iOS */
}

But as suggested using google fonts you should have no problems.

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Comments

[Michael Khalili]

Exactly the issue I was facing. Thanks for following up with an answer to your own question!