- From: Mike Bremford via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2020 14:37:26 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
Anyone specifying `font-family: fantasy` in 2020 is essentially saying they don't really care which font is used. Deprecate it; it will fall back to the system default, which is as valid as any other result. Personally I'd then swing the same axe at "emoji" (preferring `font-variant-color` or similar to replace it) and "cursive", although perhaps the "kaiti equivalence" issue would make the latter a harder prospect. Beyond that, unless there's a very, very specific purpose (math, perhaps fangsong, and the various ui-* fonts for native OS appearance), I would vote to keep the door on new generic fonts firmly shut. Universal consensus on categories in a modern, multilingual web seems very unlikely, and if we manage to achieve it? We've just added a feature that is literally designed to give varying results across browsers and platforms. It seems a step in the wrong direction. -- GitHub Notification of comment by faceless2 Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/4910#issuecomment-618432209 using your GitHub account
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