- From: Maciej Stachowiak via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 22:21:27 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> How are [existing `font` keywords](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#font-prop) `caption`, `icon`, `menu`, `message-box`, `small-caption`, `status-bar` not suitable to access these fonts? > > > System fonts can only be set as a whole; that is, the font family, size, weight, style, etc. are all set at the same time. These values can then be altered individually if desired. Two reasons: 1. None of those necessarily correspond to "the system serif font" or "the system monospace font". On operating systems I am familiar with, none of those are set in serif or monospace. 2. The system serif and monospace fonts (just like the regular system font) do not necessarily have an implied size, weight or style; they are used in different sizes, weights or styles in different contexts. This particular set of keywords is also somewhat old-fashioned in that it maps to desktop-style mouse plus overlapping window UIs, but not to modern mobile-style touch-based UIs. -- GitHub Notification of comment by othermaciej Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4107#issuecomment-511240170 using your GitHub account
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