- From: Chris Lilley via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 17:24:55 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
The [`ital` axis](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/dvaraxistag_ital) is a bit weird; as registered, it is more for grouping roman and italic within a family than for a roman to italic variation axis:
> The 'ital' axis tag is used within a STAT table of italic fonts to provide a complete characterization of a font in relation to its family within the STAT table. The Italic axis can be used as a variation axis within a variable font, though this _is not expected to be common_.
The problem is that when it **is** used as a variation axis, it is not used for matching.
```
@font-face { /* Font Face 1 has ital = 0.3 */
font-family: Example1;
font-style: auto
}
p {
font-style: italic;
}
```
Currently, regardless of the value of the `ital` axis, it will never be matched with auto, only by explicitly declaring `font-style: italic` in the descriptor:
> The auto values for these three descriptors have the following effects:
> For font selection purposes, the font is selected as if the appropriate initial value is chosen
The initial value for the font-style descriptor is `normal`, so even with `ital=1.0` it will never match unless explicitly described as italic. Instead, the low-level property has to be used:
```
i, em {
font-family: Example1;
font-variation-settings: ital 0.8;
}
```
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