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I love CM, but the italic Lorem Ipsum sample on this page is uuuugggggly, so bad that it must be a bug. I hope. I'm on MacOS, Firefox 88. EDIT no wait, I see w

by jmmcd 5y ago

I love CM, but the italic Lorem Ipsum sample on this page is uuuugggggly, so bad that it must be a bug. I hope. I'm on MacOS, Firefox 88. EDIT no wait, I see what has happened. It has turned the emphasised text into double-italics, instead of de-italicising it. Yuck.

jfk13 5y ago
Do you mean the bolded text? The problem there is that the @font-face family is set up with just a single weight (no bold-italic face is provided), and so the browser applies a synthetic bold effect as a fallback.
- jmmcd 5y ago
  No, I mean the text that was already italic in the original.
  - jfk13 5y ago
    Oh, I think you're referring to the "Computer Modern Serif Slanted" sample (not the "Computer Modern Classical Serif Italic"), right? Yes, the @font-face rules for that family have 'font-style: normal', whereas they should really have 'font-style: oblique' which would have avoided that ugliness.
    - jmmcd 5y ago
      Ah, yes, that's what I meant. Thanks.