Re: c525-font-wt-000.htm and extensive, thorough font-weight testing

Quoting Gérard Talbot <css21testsuite@gtalbot.org>:

>> For
>> instance, I don't seem to have the Extralight style of DejaVu Sans
>
>
> "
> The full DejaVu fonts family contains following styles:
>
>     * Sans: Book, Bold, Oblique, Bold Oblique, Condensed, Condensed
> Bold, Condensed Oblique and Condensed Bold Oblique, Extralight
> "
> http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/Main_Page

Right, but for the distribution I'm currently on (Ubuntu 8.04) only  
the book and bold styles are installed by default (in ttf-dejavu-core,  
the rest being in ttf-dejavu-extra). I'm guessing it's not necessarily  
very common to have more than two weights, especially on mobile  
devices and such.

>> (and
>> in
>> either case the test defaults to other families in the browsers I
>> tried).
>
> The default font for the test is a thing/issue which I believe can be
> worked out.

Yes, linking to a set of required fonts sounds like a good idea.  
(Optionally, there could be a separate variant of the test which just  
checks that a bolder font-weight value doesn't give a lighter font,  
and vice versa.)

-- 
Řyvind Stenhaug
Core Norway, Opera Software ASA

Received on Tuesday, 14 September 2010 14:19:22 UTC