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

> (The geek in me quite likes the idea of font-optical-sizing: <number> as originally proposed here, though I would be inclined to argue that 1.0 should mean that CSS points -- rather than pixels -- are equated to opsz units, and the default macOS browser behavior would be equivalent to font-optical-sizing: 1.33333. But I'm not sure there's really a compelling case for the extra flexibility.)

I too like the extra flexibility, and also the opportunity to reliably encode the Mac tradeoff with an explicit value. But mainly because this is indeed a variable axis, and authors may choose to prefer a heavier/lower-contrast or lighter/higher-contrast rendering for a specific face, than the font designer provides by default. In the same way that they may prefer a weight of 650 for bold or 424 for book, compared to what the font designer picked as a default.

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