Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-fonts-4] [varfont] Values in font-variation-settings should be normalized 0.0 - 1.0

It seems like it's best to treat the number range as analogous to 
'thinnest to thickest' or 'narrowest to widest'; i.e. if we used a 
1-999 range (or whatever it is we choose), the midpoint should be 
whatever is the 'reference' shape of the glyph. That way the  
'default' value would be 500, and 1 would correspond to the 
thinnest/narrowest/shortest/etc, 999 being the opposite end of the 
spectrum. 

I'm curious if there's a notion of 'named deltas' to be able to call 
the 'Black' weight in the spec, and if so could we expose that and/or 
associate it in our css?

Thinking of something like:

font-family: variablefontname;
font-style: normal;
font-weight: heavy;
(instead of font-weight: 999)

[just saw that @litherum just opened up #574 related to this]


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