Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-fonts-4] font-stretch is unfortunately named (#551)

I don’t have much to add here except agreement with the recent comments. In all other contexts, I’ve only ever understood ‘stretch’ to be something you’re explicitly _not supposed to do_ with type. `font-width` would be more accurate, and significantly less confusing for existing type users learning CSS.

(And even as a long-time CSS user, I still find myself falling back to `font-variation-settings` or setting `font-synthesis: none` unnecessarily, because subconsciously I worry `font-stretch` will distort the type if other widths aren’t available.)

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