Re: [CSS] font-size-adjust curiosity

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




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