- From: Chris Lilley via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 10:16:03 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> I'm not sure I understand the relationship between the properties named `font-variant-*` and the descriptors, A descriptor says what a font can do, what it supports. A property is a request for styling, for some element. So for example a property can say "I want this text to be italic" and the descriptor says "this font supports italic" which means it is a candidate for being used. This is why properties and descriptors have the same names, but don't necessarily have the same value syntax. For example the `font-weight` descriptor can take two values: ```css font-weight: 300 650; ``` meaning it can produce that range of weights, while the `font-weight` property takes only a single value ```css font-weight: 700 ``` which means it won't match that font; the `font-weight` property also takes values that make no sense for a descriptor, like `bolder`. Properties and descriptors are not always paired. For example there is a `unicode-range` descriptor but no `unicode-range` property; the text content of the element sets what unicode characters it wants to render. -- GitHub Notification of comment by svgeesus Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/7502#issuecomment-1185398321 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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