- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 19:03:35 -0800
- To: www-font@w3.org
I proposed this to the www-style group Friday. Because it concerns fonts, I think it might interest this group, as well. I welcome any comment: http://www.verso.com/agitprop/fontadjust/ Summary: font-adjust provides a simple means to preserve the legibility and much of the readability characteristics of rendered text when a stylesheet's "first-choice" font is not available, and font-substitution occurs. Adjustments are based on differences between (a) the ratios of em- to ex-heights and (b) the weights, of "first-choice" and substituted fonts. Font-adjust could vastly increase the range of prudent choices for type specification in stylesheets, advancing "font-independent typography" for the Web. I'd particularly like to know from type design experts whether I'm reinventing the wheel the "z" value, described in the linked document. Todd Fahrner mailto:fahrner@pobox.com http://www.verso.com/agitprop/ The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinitude of books, must be transcended. THE ELECTRO-LIBRARY. - El Lissitzky, 1923
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