But more and more websites with faux-bold are popping up lately, sometimes from designers who should and do know better. These faux face styles aren’t much of an issue with web-safe fonts, as most of these fonts include bold and italic styles. None of these faux faces come close to what you can get from a real font. Other browsers, such as Chrome, smear their bolds very little, so that the distinction between bold and normal can be lost. ![]() Some browsers, like Firefox, smear their bolds more, making a mess of display type. What your users see can be better or worse depending on their browser and the fonts you start with. So bold appears as a smeared version of regular glyphs, and italic appears as regular glyphs pushed over into a slant. The text is supposed to be bold or italic, and if there’s no data available the browser has to do something. ![]() You can’t fault the browser for compensating. Brief books for people who make websites.
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