Comment 6 for bug 107226

Bold Sans fonts are extremely wide in Hebrew. a bold Hebrew Sans string is approximately 20% longer (!) then an identical non-bold string. This not only interrupts with proper reading, but also distorts any websites using bold fonts (example: www.haaretz.co.il, note the blue links-bar below the title and the titles of the individual stories). I have mentioned this earlier several times in letters to the mailing list, but to no avail.
This problem does not exist in any other common font used for general display of Hebrew (Nachliely, Guttman, the MS family...). It does not exist in Latin letters used in DEjaVu sans, where the difference in length between a bold and a regular string is only about 5%, which is much more bearable.