Custom font sometimes renders in italics in IE8 / IE7

Question

In IE7 and IE8, when using a custom web font, text is sometimes rendered in italics, even when I explicitly set font-style: normal. The issue is sporadic - it will

Answer 1

I was having a similar issue, web font was showing in Italic when using IE8(Emulator), after digging and digging I came across a article that suggest emulator can sometimes be misleading especially when it comes to webFonts, and what it suggested was trying the site in the actual IE8, as I am using a windows 7 machine i wasn't able to download the real thing so I used this site called http://www.browserstack.com/ (No testers or fake browsers. Test in real browsers including Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.)

and i noticed my font was not italic anymore :D

Here's the link to the article i read,

http://blog.typekit.com/2013/03/14/the-dangers-of-cross-browser-testing-with-ie9s-browser-modes/

Hope this helps you guys, if i came across something like this when researching it really would have saved me a few hours