It's hard to know without more information from the OP but I've seen these same symptoms caused by the hardware acceleration feature in Firefox. It's been know to cause several problems with font rendering. One I've observed is failing to render a non-standard font (such as "Arial MT Rounded Bold") despite it being present on the client machine.
Probably the best solution is to either use a different (standard) font or (as Kent suggests) find a similar web font that will work in all modern browsers. Alternatively, like many font issues, the problem can be mitigated by supplying a list of font families to use as fall-backs.
To use custom fonts with good cross browser compatibility, take a look at FontSquirrel. They will generate the correct CSS to get custom fonts working cross browser. Take a look around their site for Rounded MT Bold or whatever else you want :-) Also, if you want more fonts, take a look at
Other options include using Google's web-font Nunito (as Kent Brewster recommended a few minutes ago), or setting up a font-face font on your own server, providing one of the rounded fonts (RockoFLF Bold, FF Din Rounded, Nunito, and Arial MT Rounded Bold are all options). (Technically, per Kent's comment, Glitch is using RockoFLF, with Arial MT Rounded Bold as the second font in the stack. At least, that's what they were doing a few months ago when I last looked at their code. ... Oh ... just checked again, and they've dropped the Arial MT Rounded Bold out of the stack. They're calling RockoFLF with an embedded font-face.)
Its worth noting that Linux doesn't come with Arial by default so one should not rely on a font being present on a users computer. Instead they should download the files (license permitting), host them on their site and link to them using @font-face.
You can use only fonts which are installed at the clients computer!! So just mentioning them in the css font-family doesn't work if the font is not installed. For this, Google Fonts and others bring the functionality... so everytime you use a font that is not "Times", "Arial" or "Verdana", which are installed on nearly every computer, you should think about an alternative to raw css
For anyone still having a problem getting Arial Rounded MT Bold to work in CSS try using "Arial Rounded MT" (no Bold) in your font-family declaration. It works for me. I assume somewhere in the font file it is called "Arial Rounded MT" instead of "Arial Rounded MT Bold". Probably because "Bold" would not normally be included in a font name as it's a font-weight.
You should always include at least one generic family name in a font-family list, since there's no guarantee that any given font is available. This lets the browser select an acceptable fallback font when necessary.
The font-family property specifies a list of fonts, from highest priority to lowest. Font selection does not stop at the first font in the list that is on the user's system. Rather, font selection is done one character at a time, so that if an available font does not have a glyph for a needed character, the latter fonts are tried. When a font is only available in some styles, variants, or sizes, those properties may also influence which font family is chosen.
The name of a font family. This must be either a single value or a space-separated sequence of values. String values must be quoted but may contain any Unicode character. Custom identifiers are not quoted, but certain characters must be escaped.
Generic font families are a fallback mechanism, a means of preserving some of the style sheet author's intent when none of the specified fonts are available. Generic family names are keywords and must not be quoted. A generic font family should be the last item in the list of font family names. The following keywords are defined:
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