- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:46:21 -0800
- To: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Cc: W3C www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>, Schalk Neethling <sneethling@mozilla.com>, Philippe Wittenbergh <ph.wittenbergh@l-c-n.com>
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 6:04 PM, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com> wrote: > Tab Atkins wrote: >> Fallback fonts are *always* the same size as the main font, because >> they all use the same font-size declaration. font-size-adjust just >> lets you change what you're using to define "size", because having the >> same x-height can be visually more appealing when mixing fonts. > > No, fallback fonts are sized differently depending upon the ratio of > their x-height to em size, as specified in the description of the > font-size-adjust property. The size is determined by a combination > of 'font-size' and 'font-size-adjust'. Reread what I wrote - I'm saying exactly the same thing as you. ^_^ > The reason for keeping x-height constant is less about being "visually > more appealing" than it is about readability at small sizes, where the > x-height is a determining factor. Okay, sure. ~TJ
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