Chrome 19 not recognising font-weight: lighter - google-chrome

I just pulled up a project I'm working on to make some modifications, and noticed that declaration font-weight: lighter which is being served via #font-face and it is no longer working on the site (see image - top chrome, bottom ff). Nothing has changed on my system (Windows) since last night, bar being upgraded to Chrome 19.0.1084.46 today, which I presume is the problem, but I am wondering if anyone else has noticed this or if there is a fix?
Thanks.

Try using a number instead the relative term lighter.
For example: font-weight:100 will be the lightest.
There's a handy article about relative and absolute font-weights here:
http://webdesign.about.com/od/fonts/qt/aa031807.htm

If you are using a font-face font that has multiple styles (as you should) make sure that each variant is specifically tied to a font-weight, that way each variation has its own explicit file. Otherwise it's kinda up to the browser to make up what it wants to do. I have found that the automatically generated code from font-squirrel does not do this (though perhaps they've updated they're packaging)
Notice in the following code how each file has font-weight and font-style set explicitly. This leaves no room for guessing.
#font-face {
font-family: 'CaviarDreams';
src: url('fonts/CaviarDreamsItalic-webfont.eot');
src: url('fonts/CaviarDreamsItalic-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('fonts/CaviarDreamsItalic-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('fonts/CaviarDreamsItalic-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('fonts/CaviarDreamsItalic-webfont.svg#CaviarDreamsItalic') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'CaviarDreams';
src: url('fonts/CaviarDreams_BoldItalic-webfont.eot');
src: url('fonts/CaviarDreams_BoldItalic-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('fonts/CaviarDreams_BoldItalic-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('fonts/CaviarDreams_BoldItalic-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('fonts/CaviarDreams_BoldItalic-webfont.svg#CaviarDreamsBoldItalic') format('svg');
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'CaviarDreams';
src: url('fonts/CaviarDreams-webfont.eot');
src: url('fonts/CaviarDreams-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('fonts/CaviarDreams-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('fonts/CaviarDreams-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('fonts/CaviarDreams-webfont.svg#CaviarDreamsRegular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'CaviarDreams';
src: url('fonts/CaviarDreams_Bold-webfont.eot');
src: url('fonts/CaviarDreams_Bold-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('fonts/CaviarDreams_Bold-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('fonts/CaviarDreams_Bold-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('fonts/CaviarDreams_Bold-webfont.svg#CaviarDreamsBold') format('svg');
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
}

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#font-face family looks different on desktop / mobile

I'm currently using a custom font on my website. The font looks fine on desktop, however on mobile it looks completely different. I'm also using all the right formats. Here is the code and pictures below:
Also When I remove the font family, it turns into a serif font which means a font is in fact loading, but why it looks completely different I'm not sure.
#font-face {
font-family: 'futura';
src: url('./futura.eot');
src: url('./futura.eot?') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('./futura.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('./futura.woff') format('woff'),
url('./futura.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('./futura.svg') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
Solution: I just had to change the font-weight from normal to bold.
i had same problem, i remove font type and just keep ttf,i use media query for limit this change for mobile
#font-face {
font-family: 'futura';
src: url('./futura.ttf');
}
#media(min-width:768px){
#font-face {
font-family: 'futura';
src: url('./futura.eot');
src: url('./futura.eot?') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('./futura.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('./futura.woff') format('woff'),
url('./futura.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('./futura.svg') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
}
if this wont work. add this line on top of your css
#font-face {
font-family: 'futura';
src: url('./futura.ttf');
}

fonts not displaying properly in chrome

I have following fonts in my style.css in my wordpress theme.
#font-face {
font-family: 'latoregular';
src: url('./fonts/lato-regular.eot');
src: url('./fonts/lato-regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('./fonts/lato-regular.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('./fonts/lato-regular.woff') format('woff'),
url('./fonts/lato-regular.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('./fonts/lato-regular.svg#latoregular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'bebasregular';
src: url('./fonts/bebas___-webfont.eot');
src: url('./fonts/bebas___-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('./fonts/bebas___-webfont.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('./fonts/bebas___-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('./fonts/bebas___-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('./fonts/bebas___-webfont.svg#bebasregular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'coustardregular';
src: url('./fonts/coustard-regular.eot');
src: url('./fonts/coustard-regular.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('./fonts/coustard-regular.woff2') format('woff2'),
url('./fonts/coustard-regular.woff') format('woff'),
url('./fonts/coustard-regular.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('./fonts/coustard-regular.svg#coustardregular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
This is the text in h2 element
The h2 element has font-family of coustardregular and font-weight of bold. As you can see in the image the structure of letter T is very strange and so is with letter I. I got this problem only in chrome and nowhere else. I tried this link also but it does not work and I have no idea about it. Can anybody guide me over this.
Where are you getting your font files from? I normally try to stick to using Google fonts rather than using loads of files because you know they'll work as they've been tried and tested whereas a lot of the time when you use the individual files, they've been converted from another file type which is where a lot of problems come from.
Google Fonts has the Coustard font and you can use it simply by adding the following to your css file (at the top):
#import url(https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Coustard);
...or head over to Google to customize - https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Coustard

Fonts are not working in IE

code :
#font-face {
font-family: 'GothamRnd-Medium';
src: url('about/fonts/GothamRnd-Medium/GothamRnd-Medium.eot');
src: url('about/fonts/GothamRnd-Medium/GothamRnd-Medium.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('about/fonts/GothamRnd-Medium/GothamRnd-Medium.woff') format('woff'),
url('about/fonts/GothamRnd-Medium/GothamRnd-Medium.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('about/fonts/GothamRnd-Medium/GothamRnd-Medium.svg#GothamRnd-Medium') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'ArcherBoldItalic';
src: url('about/fonts/Archer-BoldItal/archer-boldital.eot');
src: url('about/fonts/Archer-BoldItal/archer-boldital.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('about/fonts/Archer-BoldItal/archer-boldital.woff') format('woff'),
url('about/fonts/Archer-BoldItal/archer-boldital.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('about/fonts/Archer-BoldItal/archer-boldital.svg#ArcherBoldItalic') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'proxima_novalight';
src: url('about/fonts/ProximaNova-Light/proximanova-light-webfont.eot');
src: url('about/fonts/ProximaNova-Light/proximanova-light-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('about/fonts/ProximaNova-Light/proximanova-light-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('about/fonts/ProximaNova-Light/proximanova-light-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('about/fonts/ProximaNova-Light/proximanova-light-webfont.svg#proxima_novalight') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
I have embedded three fonts. Out of three fonts 'proxima_novalight' font is working perfectly in IE8 but other two fonts are not working. I checked all the code but i didn't find the solution. Its working fine in other browsers. Any idea guys ?
If IE8 throws the CSS3111: #font-face encountered unknown error, you
probably have the non-matching font-family name problem.
To resolve this, you need to edit your font file, define identical
names for Fontname, Family name and Name for humans and export your
TTF. This can be done using the FontForge application. Afterwards, you
than again convert it for web (EOT, WOFF).
#font-face {
font-family: 'portagoitc-tt';
src: url('fonts/portagoitc-tt.eot');
src: url('fonts/portagoitc-tt.eot?iefix') format('opentype'),
url('fonts/portagoitc-tt.woff') format('woff'),
url('fonts/portagoitc-tt.ttf') format('truetype');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
Please check for further details
Font Face not working in IE8 as expected

Font-face not working on Windows version of browsers

I coded a website on my mac, and i used a custom font. I defined the custom font with this font-face rule:
#font-face
{
font-family: gnuolane;
src: url('../fonts/gnuolane.otf'),
}
The problem is that the font is not loaded on any windows version of any browser. On my mac, on Safari/Chrome/FF is working perfect.
This is the website.
And this is how it is supposed to look like, when font-face is working correctly:
Thanks
LE:
I generated this code and all those files from fontsquirrel.com. Still not working. I tried with both '../fonts/gnuolane....' and '/fonts/gnuolane....'
#font-face {
font-family: 'gnuolane';
src: url('../fonts/gnuolane_rg-webfont.eot');
src: url('../fonts/gnuolane_rg-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('../fonts/gnuolane_rg-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('../fonts/gnuolane_rg-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('../fonts/gnuolane_rg-webfont.svg#gnuolane_rgregular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
Still not working tho'..
Move all your font files (the actual fonts I mean) to the same folder as your CSS file...
Then use this block of CSS. Tell me if it works. I sense it's a path issue...
#font-face {
font-family: 'gnuolane';
src: url('gnuolane_rg-webfont.eot');
src: url('gnuolane_rg-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('gnuolane_rg-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('gnuolane_rg-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('gnuolane_rg-webfont.svg#gnuolane_rgregular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
try this
#font-face {
src: local('gnuolane'), url('/path_to/gnuolane.otf') format('truetype');
}

Custom font renders buggy in IE8

Due to specific client requirements, I need to use IE8 as the main browser for a website, for which they require that a custom font of their own be used on the page headings. H1's to be more precise.
The problem I'm having is that on exactly the same page (whatever the page), the heading is sometimes correctly rendered using the custom font, but other times IE8 messes up the text and apparently applies the fallback font.
Bellow are two screenshots, one with the font correctly applied, one with it not being applied:
Good font:
Bad font:
I have the following stylesheet where I define the rules for that custom font. I apologize in advance, but I cannot make the name of the font public (NDA in effect).
#font-face {
font-family: 'secretfont_exbregular';
src: url('../fonts/secretfontexbd-webfont.eot');
src: url('../fonts/secretfontexbd-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('../fonts/secretfontexbd-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('../fonts/secretfontexbd-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('../fonts/secretfontexbd-webfont.svg#secretfont_exbregular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'secretfont_ltregular';
src: url('../fonts/secretfontlt-webfont.eot');
src: url('../fonts/secretfontlt-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('../fonts/secretfontlt-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('../fonts/secretfontlt-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('../fonts/secretfontlt-webfont.svg#secretfont_ltregular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'secretfont_rgregular';
src: url('../fonts/secretfontrg-webfont.eot');
src: url('../fonts/secretfontrg-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('../fonts/secretfontrg-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('../fonts/secretfontrg-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('../fonts/secretfontrg-webfont.svg#secretfont_rgregular') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
#font-face {
font-family: 'secretfont_rgbold';
src: url('../fonts/secretfontrgbd-webfont.eot');
src: url('../fonts/secretfontrgbd-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
url('../fonts/secretfontrgbd-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
url('../fonts/secretfontrgbd-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
url('../fonts/secretfontrgbd-webfont.svg#secretfont_rgbold') format('svg');
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
And the stylesheet where I set the font-family for the headings:
h1 {
color: #E60000;
font-family: 'secretfont_ltregular', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 36px;
}
I've tried everything I could think of but can't seem to get a consistent behavior out of IE8. What can I do to make it work as it should?
I had a similar issue - all EOT files were being successfully loaded by IE8 but only sporadically applied. After a lot of frustration the only thing that seemed to work is adding the chrome frame meta tag just below the tag:
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge,chrome=1" />
Be aware that chrome frame stops being supported January 2014 http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-getting-started