- From: Benjamin Aster via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2023 18:56:48 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
BenjaminAster has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts: == [css-fonts-4] Additional keywords for `font-weight`? == Currently, only the numbers `400` (normal) and `700` (bold) have their own [`font-weight`](https://drafts.csswg.org/css-fonts-4/#font-weight-prop) keywords. When wanting to use other font weights (e.g. 600, which is often used as a "not so heavy" alternative to 700/bold), you currently have to use a number for that. I personally think that numbers are very unreadable in this case, especially to newcomers. Seeing a `font-weight: 600` declaration somewhere without knowing the exact "boldness" mappings basically gives no information to the reader, making the DX pretty bad. Would it be feasable to add more keywords to `font-weight` simply as aliases of numbers, e.g. - `thin` = 100 - `extralight` = 200 - `light` = 300 - `medium` = 500 - `semibold` = 600 - `extrabold` = 800 - `heavy` = 900 Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/9128 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
Received on Sunday, 30 July 2023 18:56:50 UTC