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Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-fonts] Proposal to extend CSS font-optical-sizing (#4430)

From: Mark via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:53:14 +0000
To: public-css-archive@w3.org
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Lengths for `font-optical-sizing` are guaranteed to confuse authors and they will think they have to use pt or px values when what they actually want is `auto` or a unitless ratio. See what happened with `line-height`. Most websites use lengths even though they should use unitless values. The same will happen with `font-optical-sizing` if it supports lengths. Of course, with `line-height` lengths had to be supported because there was no other way to get a specific line height independent of font size for the cases where you really did want that. But for optical sizes you can use `font-feature-settings`.

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