[nc] Chromium gets the wrong font for "Ubuntu Light"

[Robin Winslow]

When Chromium requests the local font for "Ubuntu Light", it appears to be getting back the font for "Ubuntu Regular":

Examples:
http://font.ubuntu.com/
http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Ubuntu

Both these pages, when viewed on Ubuntu Trusty with Chromium, "Light" looks the same as "Regular".

The CSS declaration for the light-weight font, in both these cases, asks the operating system for "local('Ubuntu Light'), local('Ubuntu-Light')", and is presumably getting sent the wrong one for some reason.

Compare bug 1054204, where the same thing happened with LibreOffice.

[Jon Hanna (jonhanna)]

Until a fixed version is not only released, but common, the best value for the local source is probably ☺ as that's valid CSS syntax, but an invalid value, and as such should never be considered incorrect by a browser, but not match any font either, and while it's wasteful to force a download if the user has the font, at least they'll get the one you want them to get.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

I can reproduce this problem in Chromium on Ubuntu, but not in Safari on iOS. That suggests it's at most a Blink problem, not a WebKit problem.