Is there a trick to show Arial Black in Firefox?

Question

Since Arial black is buggy in firefox, is there a way to show it without embedding it with @font-face?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=644385

I've seen a couple of work arounds like using

font-weight: 900;
font-family:'Arial Black', Gadget, sans-serif;

However that method does not work for me. Suggestions?

Answer 1

The problem (according to the bug) is that the Windows DirectWrite API that Firefox uses treats Arial Black as font-family: Arial; font-weight: bold; (comment #8), so according to comment #10 you need to use:

font-family: "Arial Black", Arial;
font-weight: 900;