Re: [csswg-drafts] [meta] [css-fonts] Criteria for adding new generic font families (#4910)

@faceless2 
> If the aim is to be consistent - adding "fangsong" or "nastaliq" just because we added "serif" - then we're going to be adding a lot of them.

I think the aim is to provide fair opportunities to all scripts, because that is our obligation as a standard body. And you're right, by accepting "fangsong" and "nastaliq", we will have to add a lot.

I think what we need to figure out here is a mechanism to make it maintainable and implementable. We cannot add all requests blindly, so we will need criteria. The all characteristics of Generic font families as today is not cheap to implement (at least for us) so we might want a lighter mechanism. Maybe a registry works better than putting all of them into the spec, as we do for counter-styles. Maybe it's nice to make it polyfill-able.

Maybe there are more, but I think you raised a very good point. The aim, and how we want to approach to this problem, assuming there will be a lot, is probably the first thing we would like to figure out.

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