Text Display Different - css

I am having an issue with a section of text looking "bolder" on Windows then it does on Mac.
How do I get it displaying the same?
Both browsers are Chrome and its only happening in Chrome.
CSS:
#featured-slider .slide-content header h1 a, #featured-slider .slide-content footer h1 a {
color: #fff;
font-size: 20px;
font-family:'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif;
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
Mac:
Windows:

Try to use short hand properties like this:
font: normal 20px 'Open Sans', arial, sans-serif !important;

The way you have the css set up, it will default to a different font if the first choice is not available. I can't tell if it is doing this from the picture.
It might also be a change in the "font-weight" property.
See if adding this fixes it:
font-weight:normal;
or:
font-weight:400;

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Madcap Flare Doesn't Generate Correct Fonts in PDF output

I am trying to generate pdf files using a MadCap Flare project, but the PDF files come out with the wrong font. I am using the latest version of Flare, 2019r2.
I am trying to generate paragraphs using the Flexo fonts from Duotype. All the fonts are installed in the main Windows font directory: C:\Windows\Fonts\DUROTYPE_-_FLEXO-REGULAR_1.OTF. This was accomplished by right clicking on the font and choosing "Install for all users".
An example of the issue is the h2 style. The stylesheet has the following declarations in the default section:
body
{
padding: 0 20px;
}
...
body,
div,
li,
p
{
color: #3b4151;
font-family: FlexoRegular, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 1em;
font-weight: normal;
margin: 0.5em 0;
mc-hyphenate: never;
orphans: 2;
widows: 2;
}
...
h2
{
color: #f8193f;
font-family: FlexoBoldIt, Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-weight: normal;
font-size: 1.67em;
page-break-after: avoid;
}
The selector I actually want to use is under a #media section with the following declarations.
body
{
padding: 0;
position: relative;
margin: 0;
}
h2
{
color: #f8193f;
font-family: "Flexo-BoldIt", Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 9pt;
margin-bottom: 0px;
margin: 0px;
margin-top: 6px;
}
When I define the font-familiy as "font-family: "Flexo", Arial, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;" I get output with the Flexo font. However, when I try "Flexo-BoldIt" or 'Flexo-BoldIt' or "Flexo Bold Italic" or various other combinations of quotes and font names I get output with Microsoft Sans Serif. When I try to override the style with an explicit declaration such as
<h2 style="text-align: center;font-family: "Flexo-BoldIt"...">
the output is again in MS Sans Serif.
Adding declarations like
font-style: italic;
font-weight: bold;
doesn't help.
Why doesn't Flare generate output with the correct font? Also, why doesn't it generate output with Arial, as that is installed? If I remove "Flexo-BoldIt" from the font-family I get output with Arial.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Have you added font-face in CSS
#font-face
{
font-family: 'YourFontFamilyName';
src: url(../path/to/font);
}
After that use font like
h1
{
font-family: 'YourFontFamilyName';
}
Also, keep your fonts in project files so you can access it with a relative path easily.
Try this out and give me feedback :)
UPDATE
This is more of a tip for every project similar to this one.
Do not use the system installed fonts because if the user doesn't have that font installed on their system it will be wrong. Always put font files in a project directory and access them like above.
Convert the font file into base64
#font-face {
font-family: 'myfont';
src: url(data:font/truetype;charset=utf-8;base64,<<copied base64 string>>) format('truetype');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
Try this, from https://www.madcapsoftware.com/blog/madcap-flare-tip-use-custom-fonts-flare-outputs/:
The #font-face rule can have “font-family” defined as any name. However, I recommend using the default name seen in Flare. You can find out what name Flare is reading the font by going to the Home Ribbon and selecting the Font dropdown. The reason I recommend this is because if the font name is different than what appears in the dropdown, the PDF outputs will have to point to a different font name than your HTML5 outputs.
The name you show in the example looks like the name on the filesystem, not necessarily what the name appears as in the ribbon.

Why is my font not rendering correct / fuzzy - is there a way to fix this?

I am using various versions of Halvetic on this website. For some reason they all display fine, except for one which is fuzzy. I have noticed that one some browsers it is better or worse - however, on my iPhone it is really crisp and perfect?
Are there any suggestions on how I can get this font to display correctly in modern browsers on a desktop (chrome/firefox etc)?
This is what I see:
URL: http://52.64.135.79/wordpress/company-overview/
Relevant CSS rules I can see are as follows. Is there something I can do to fix this?
h4, .h4 {
line-height: 21px;
}
h4, .h4 {
font-size: 16px;
}
h4, .h4 {
font-weight: 700;
}
h4, .h4 {
font-family: "Helvetica Neue LT W01_55 Roman", sans-serif !important;
margin-bottom: 5px;
padding: 5px 0 0;
letter-spacing: 0.00em;
}
body {
-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}
Ultimately the issue here was because the font itself has a separate character set for each different font weight.
The CSS was applying a font-weight of 700 to a font which was meant to be rendered at 400. The fix was to download the heavier weight version of the font, rather than allow the browser to create an artificial "bold" version.

Font size tiny on various elements IE9

I'm debugging this website. For some reason on IE9, the font sizes load normally and then shrink once everything has loaded.
What's causing this and how can it be fixed? I've double checked with the IE9 inspector and the px values seem to be missing from the body in the CSS.
Here's what I'm seeing via the IE9 inspector:
The CSS should read:
body {
color: #555;
font-family: "Avenir LT W01_55 Roman1475520", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 16px;
font-size: 1.6rem;
line-height: 1.875;
font-weight: normal;
}
Apparently IE9 has built-in font-size: 100% for body aswell as html. Set font-sizes for p tag.

Why is Bootstrap's 1em is smaller than browser default?

Can someone explain it to me, why is my 1em font smaller than browser default? I set font-size on my body tag and using font-family: 'Open Sans', Arial, sans-serif;
Bootstrap sets the font size of <html> to 10px, you need to override this to get the browser default:
html, body {
font-size: 1em;
}

font style not working in firefox

the following font style code does not work in firefox, I tested it in chrome and iexplorer and it works, so must be a compatibility problem.
font: italic normal normal normal 12px/15.3599996566772px Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
Can someone confirm it, or maybe there's an alternative for firefox.
FIX:
font: italic normal normal 12px/15.3599996566772px Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;
For FireFox, you should set all the properties without using the shorthand property. font: is the shorthand property for many other font properties:
Instead it should look like this:
font-family: monospace;
font-size: 20px;
font-weight: bold;
color: blue;
http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_font_font.asp
This appears to be a bug in Firefox. In the Developer Tools, no errors are shown, but when inspecting style sheets, the styles for the element are empty.
A quick workaround is to remove of the normal keywords (or all of them, since they are redundant: all sub-properties not set explicitly in a font shorthand are set to their initial values).
P.S. Your code is correct, Firefox just does not handle it well. As a reference to font shorthand syntax (if you use it), use the W3C CSS 2.1 specification.

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