- From: Alan Gresley <alan@css-class.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:53:42 +1100
- To: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- CC: John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, W3C www-style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>, Schalk Neethling <sneethling@mozilla.com>, Philippe Wittenbergh <ph.wittenbergh@l-c-n.com>
On 5/03/2012 1:46 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > 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. ^_^ Not exactly true. Lucida Bright and Garamond with the same x-height would not look good. Unfinished test. http://css-class.com/test/css/text/linebox-line-height-011.html >> 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 -- Alan Gresley http://css-3d.org/ http://css-class.com/
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