[csswg-drafts] [css-fonts-4] May want different properties for font matching and variation value

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https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts:

== [css-fonts-4] May want different properties for font matching and 
variation value ==
Before we have variable fonts, `font-weight` property is only used for
 font matching, and thus authors can map a weight to whatever font 
face they want regardless of the designed weight of the font.

However, with variable fonts, `font-weight` property is now used for 
both font matching and choosing value for variation, which means 
authors lose the ability describe above.

I suppose this applies to other properties involving font matching as 
well, e.g. `font-style`, `font-stretch`.

(I'm not sure whether it is an important issue, though, since I'm not 
a typical frontend developer or designer.)

cc @litherum @nattokirai 

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Received on Saturday, 24 September 2016 10:13:18 UTC