different font enabled, but same font-family name [#1845284]

I searched for 'open sans' then many open sans 300(cyrilic, greek, italic, latin, latin-ext......) come up exept open sans 300.

This is the font i want to use. http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Open+Sans
I thought this font was popular google font.

More confusing thing is whichever font i select, help text says:
To apply in your own CSS, use: font-family: Open Sans;

example: Open Sans 300 or 600, it says i need to use 'font-family: Open Sans'

i don't have to use Open Sans, if this is not supported. i'd like to know if this is expected. Thank you for helping newbie.

Comment	File	Size	Author
#4	0kb.png	18.35 KB	bellagio
#4	enabled_font.png	26.44 KB	bellagio
	opensans2.png	21.45 KB	bellagio
	opensans.png	113.91 KB	bellagio
	css.png	20.65 KB	bellagio

Comments

Comment #1

sreynen commented 20 November 2012 at 02:18

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» Needs review

Google breaks up their fonts by character ranges. If you're not publishing any Greek text, you don't need the Greek characters, so you can make the font files smaller (and your site faster) by only using the character ranges you need. If your site is only publishing English text, you probably just want the latin character range. What you're seeing from Font Squirrel is all character ranges combined. If you want that via Google, just enable all the character ranges. They'll all share the same font-family name, which is fine.

Does that make sense?

Comment #2

bellagio commented 20 November 2012 at 17:01

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Needs review

» Closed (fixed)

WIth your help, i realized that i need to change font-family:'OpenSansBold';
even though help text says 'OpenSansLight'

(i admit i am stupid)

Comment #3

sreynen commented 20 November 2012 at 18:06

Status:

Closed (fixed)

» Active

Hmm, that sounds like a bug. Can you explain which fonts you have enabled, and maybe post a copy of the fonts.css file (normally in sites/default/files/fontyourface/)?

Comment #4

bellagio commented 20 November 2012 at 23:34

Status	File	Size
new	enabled_font.png	26.44 KB
new	0kb.png	18.35 KB

my font.css is 0KB.

by the way, when i enabled Hammersmith font from Font Squirrel, help text says use font-family: 'HammersmithOneRegular'
When i used that, it loaded something look like Times font.

So i tried Hammersmith from Google, it worked.